Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance

A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

Chrome 50 Changelog :

• High CVE-2016-1652: Universal XSS in extension bindings
• High CVE-2016-1653: Out-of-bounds write in V8
• Medium CVE-2016-1651: Out-of-bounds read in Pdfium JPEG2000 decoding
• Medium CVE-2016-1654: Uninitialized memory read in media
• Medium CVE-2016-1655: Use-after-free related to extensions
• Medium CVE-2016-1656: Android downloaded file path restriction bypass
• Medium CVE-2016-1657: Address bar spoofing
• Low CVE-2016-1658: Potential leak of sensitive information to malicious extensions

Complete list of changes is available in the log

How to Install Google Chrome 50 on Ubuntu 16.04 ‘Xenial Xerus’ LTS via PPA :

Added PPA google chrome :

sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list’

wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add –

Update repository :

sudo apt update

Install google chrome :

sudo apt install google-chrome-stable

after Installation is completed, search google chrome on ubuntu dashboard, like this :


And set as default browser on ubuntu :