Install Google Chrome 46 on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf)
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.
What New in Google Chrome 46.0.2490.71:
- High CVE-2015-6755: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.
- High CVE-2015-6756: Use-after-free in PDFium. Credit to anonymous.
- High CVE-2015-6757: Use-after-free in ServiceWorker. Credit to Collin Payne.
- High CVE-2015-6758: Bad-cast in PDFium. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
- Medium CVE-2015-6759: Information leakage in LocalStorage. Credit to Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea).
- Medium CVE-2015-6760: Improper error handling in libANGLE. Credit to lastland.net.
- Medium CVE-2015-6761: Memory corruption in FFMpeg. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG and anonymous.
- Low CVE-2015-6762: CORS bypass via CSS fonts. Credit to Muneaki Nishimura (nishimunea).
How Install/Update Google Chrome 46 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Elementary OS
To Install Google Chrome 46 on Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) derivative system, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:ubuntu 32 bit
# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
# sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
# sudo rm -rf google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
ubuntu 64 bit
# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
# sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
# sudo rm -rf google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:
# sudo apt-get install -f
