After the official BETA release on Tuesday, Googles new browser “chrome” has been estimated to have taken 1% of the internet broswer market share in only 24 hours. This success, however, has come amidst a ripple of doubt amongst users, who have already identified some major flaws within the browser.

Discovered by blogger Aviv Raff, the “carpet bombing” exploit, enables malicious software to be opened on your computer automatically if it is mistakenly downloaded. This exploit has seemingly slipped through the development net, and poses a potential security risk. There are also concerns over the speed and reliability of the broswer with users experiencing crashing and freezing through general use of the software.

With such a huge uptake of the browser, the software is tested by all different types of users and helps to uncover any problems it has. Im sure these hiccups will be quickly fixed, but for the time being, im sticking with Firefox.