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Chrome 5 for Mac Adds Translation, Other Updates

Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News

Good news for all you Mac users: the newest update to Chrome 5 will offer the Translate feature that those of us on the Windows version have been able to enjoy for the past couple of weeks. If you’ve never used Google translate, you probably don’t know what you’re missing. I have a piece out there already that pretty much outlines what I’m talking about, and you can check it out here.

Here are the new updates to Chrome 5 Beta for Mac:

• Translate feature has been added
• Greater control over privacy (learn more here)
• Full screen mode by using Shift-CMD-F (Thanks Nick!)
• Forced reload, instead of using cache by using Shift+Reload

Already have Chrome 5 Beta for Mac? You will be automatically updated. If you don’t have Chrome 5, get it here.

With the news that Safari was the first browser successfully hacked at this year’s Pwn2Own competition, those of you out there who like using Apple products may want to consider giving Chrome 5 a try. An earlier version that is in stable release, Chrome 4, has yet to go down at the competition where hackers (they’re called “researchers” these days) try to compromise operating systems, browsers and mobile phones.

Apple comes out with great products. There is no doubt about that. But one big problem is that they aren’t nearly as ubiquitous as Windows products, and therefore have not been as susceptible to attack by those with malicious intentions. Unfortunately that landscape is changing. Check out this graph that shows the correlation between the prevalence of Apple stores and adoption of their products:

So while Apple has been building its own retail stores around the world they have increased their market share from 3.5% to almost 10% in a span of seven years. That means more Macs and more of them means the potential to attack them increases. As an example of how much work needs to done to protect Macs, Apple added data execution protection (DEP) to Snow Leopard which was something adopted by Windows in XP SP2 which came out in 2003.

So this post may have gone off on a tangent from its original theme, but I hope it has been informative nonetheless.

Tags: apple, Apple Stores, Chrome 4, Chrome 5, DEP, Mac, Pwn2Own, Safari, Snow Leopard, translate, Windows XP