Google has just pushed out Chrome 3.0.195.33 stable. The update fixes two potential problems.

The first issue is a simple bug fix, which would cause Google Chrome to stop working if a required Windows DLL (t2embed.dll) was not found, or not readable by the browser. This DLL is no longer needed by Chrome from this release.

The second issues closes a security hole, which has a low severity rating. The hole would allow “custom headers incorrectly sent for CORS OPTIONS request”.

The update will be pushed out automatically to existing users, while new users can download Google Chrome from the Chrome website.

Apple have pushed out an update for Safari users, taking the browser to version 4.04.

The update improves JavaScript and History performance, while also fixing 6 security holes.

This update is recommended for all Safari users and includes improvements to performance, stability, and security including:

• Improved JavaScript performance
• Improved Full History Search performance for users with a large number of history items
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins, the search field and Yahoo! Mail

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

The update will pushed out to existing Safari 4 users, or can be downloaded from Apple’s Safari website.

Google has pushed out a new version of Chrome 3, taking it to version 3.0.195.32. The release fixes 5 stability issues, and plugs 2 security vulnerabilities.

The first security issue which was rated as medium where user were not warned for some file types that could execute JavaScript. The second security issue was rated as high and could have caused a memory corruption in the Gears plugin.

The update will be pushed out to existing Chrome users, or can be downloaded from the Google Chrome website.

Opera has also pushed out a new version of its browser yesterday, bringing with it stability and security fixes.

Opera 10.01 includes 3 security fixes, 1 of which is rated as extremely severe, while the other 2 are rated as less severe.

The release also fixes 15 other stability issues. A full list of changes can be found in the changelog.

You can download Opera 10.01 from the Opera website.

Mozilla have released Firefox 3.5.4 and Firefox 3.0.15 with a basket full of bug and security fixes.

Firefox 3.5.4 closes 11 security issues, 6 of which were rated as critical, 3 moderate, and 2 low. A total of 124 bugs were fixed for this release. A full list of changes can be found in the release notes.

Firefox 3.0.15 closes 10 security issues, 5 of which were rated as critical, 3 moderate, and 2 low. A list of changes can also be found in the release notes.

The two updated will be pushed out to exsisting Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 users, or can manually be downloaded.

Download Firefox 3.5.4
Download Firefox 3.0.15

Google has pushed out a new version of Google Chrome to users, version 3.0.195.27.

The releases fixes a few issues:

• Fixed an issue where menu items for certain Indian languages were not properly visible.
• Add support to blacklist the faux www.paypal.com certificate.
• Added NTLMv2 support on Windows.
• FFmpeg files now properly have NX/DBCompat enabled.
• V8 crash fix.

The update will be pushed out to current Chrome users automatically, or can be downloaded from the Google Chrome website.

Google has pushed out a new Chrome release to the stable, taking Chrome 3 to version 3.0.195.24.

The update fixes one security hole in the V8 JavaScript engine which is rated as high severity and could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the Google Chrome sandbox.

As usual, the browser will be pushed out to current Chrome users, or can be downloaded directly from the Google Chrome website for new users.

Mozilla has updated both Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3 to close several security holes, 3 of which were rated as critical.

A full list of changes can be found in the Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 release notes.

The update will be automatically pushed out to current users, or can be downloaded directly from the Firefox website.

Google has fixed 3 Chrome security holes, two which were rated as high severity, and the other as medium.

The first issue was in the V8 JavaScript engine, which could “allow specially-crafted Javascript on a web page to read unauthorized memory, bypassing security checks.”

The second issue allows poorly formed XML to crash the browser tab. “A malicious XML payload may be able to trigger a use-after-free condition. Other tabs are unaffected.”

The final bug could allow “sites whose certificates are signed using MD2 or MD4 hashing algorithms … to spoof an invalid site as a valid HTTPS site.”

Thankfully, none of these risks were rated as critical thanks to Google Chrome’s sandbox environment. The update will be pushed out to all current Chrome users.

Apple has released a new version of Safari, fixing several security and stability issues.

The update according to Apple includes the following changes:

• Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag
• Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins
• Stability improvements for Top Sites
• Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com
• Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color

The update is available for both Mac and Windows and can be downloaded from the Safari website.