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[Chromium Blog] Bugs will be ineligible if they are part of the base operating system as opposed to part of the Chromium source tree. In the event of bugs in a component shared with other software, we are happy to take care of responsibly notifying other affected parties.

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[Neowin.net] Neowin.net - Get $500-$1337 for finding Google Chrome bugs: While Mozilla offers up to $500 for bug reports, Google will offer a base reward of $500 to anyone who submits an eligible bug. If a user finds a severe or clever bug, Google will pay up $1337 (surely appealing to all of our inner geeks) to the developer who discovers it.

[ReadWriteWeb] Find a Bug in Google Chrome, Earn $500-$1337: Plenty of researchers have contributed to the Chromium project thus far for free, and to them Google hopes this new program will serve as a token of appreciation for their ongoing efforts. However, the introduction of monetary rewards is meant to encourage more participation in the community from external sources who have not yet pitched in.

[KenEnter.com] KenEnter.com: Google offers bounty for Chrome vulnerabilities: Paying vendors for disclosure of flaws has been a tactic used by both developers and security vendors to encourage not only research, but responsible disclosure. Firms hope that by offering cash rewards, researchers will report flaws to those who will patch them rather than malware writers who pay for new vulnerabilities to exploit.

[Agile Ali] Agile Ali » Blog Archive » Google Paying for finding Bugs in ...: For existing contributors to Chromium security ”” who would likely continue to contribute regardless ”” this may be seen as a token of our appreciation. In addition, we are hoping that the introduction of this program will encourage new individuals to participate in Chromium security.

[PC Sympathy] Your Google Chrome Bugs Could Be Worth $500-$1337 - PC Sympathy: stable, beta, and dev) or in the open source Chromium project itself. Their base reward is identical to Mozilla’s at $500, but they are offering a higher reward of $1337 for “particularly severe or particularly clever”

[Best Virus Removal] Leet Chrome bug finders can bag $1337 reward from Google | Best ...: Anyone who find a bug in Chrome or Chromium, the open source code used as the foundations of Chrome .The initiative is also designed to encourage bug hunters to report vulnerabilities responsibly, rather than reveal them to the world (and potentially to malicious hackers) before the Google browser has had a chance to be fixed.

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[BlogoFlux - Information Technology Blog] BlogoFlux - Information Technology Blog » Blog Archive » Get $500 ...: While Mozilla offers up to $500 for bug reports, Google will offer a base reward of $500 to anyone who submits an eligible bug. If a user finds a severe or clever bug, Google will pay up $1337 (surely appealing to all of our inner geeks) to the developer who discovers it.

[Chromium Blog] Chromium Blog: Multi-process Architecture: .  The browser process creates many renderer processes, each responsible for rendering web pages.  The renderer processes contain all the complex logic for handling HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images, and so on.  We achieve this using the open source WebKit rendering engine, which is also used by Apple's Safari web browser.  Each renderer process is run in a sandbox, which means it has almost no direct access to your disk, network, or display.  All interactions with web apps, including user input events and screen painting, must go through the browser process.  This lets the browser process monitor the renderers for suspicious activity, killing them if it suspects an exploit has occurred.

[Comments for CY.TALK News Blog] Firefox in Parallel - A Pre-Release Version | CY.TALK News Blog: In the sunspider javascript performance test, it was found that the new build runs nearly 3 times as fast (1849.2 ms) as firefox 3.5.6pre (4554.4 ms), however chromium runs about 50 percent faster (1211.6 ms). There were postes about Chrome installation in Ubuntu earlier and this test confirms the impression that Chrome has the edge on speed over Firefox (at least in interpretation of JavaScript).

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