Improved plug-in security coming to Google Chrome

You could almost mistake The Chromium Blog's opening paragraph as bittersweet reflection on Google's rumble in the jungle with China. It's actually a good post on the basics of vulnerability exploitation and malware installation, but basically it surmises that plug-ins are the weakest link in Internet security today.

Firefox already checks your plug-ins at start-up, and Mozilla has a Plugin Checker for other browsers. Chrome, which already has a built-in sandboxed Flash plug-in (with a PDF reader coming soon), now wants to go one step further: out-of-date plug-ins will simply be disabled. If you continue to browse with an out-of-date Java plug-in, Java applets will simply not load. Chrome will then remind you to update your plug-in.

The next step, which is pretty neat but probably less useful for everyday non-poweruser Web users, is 'warnings before running infrequently used plug-ins.' Many plug-ins aren't used on a day to day basis, so when they are activated Chrome will let you know.
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