Less than two months after the arrival of Chrome 76, Google is rolling out today Chrome 77 on all Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. “Chrome 77.0.3865.75 contains a number of fixes and improvements” and “will be available in the next few days/weeks” Mountain View announces the company in a blog post. Chrome 77 will come to Android and iOS a little later.
Google distributes Chrome 77 on Windows, Mac and Linux: here is the list of new features
First of all, we will notice the appearancea brand new home screen when starting the web browser. Longer than the current version, this new homepage invites you to “customize your Chrome browser” by adding dedicated bookmarks to apps like Gmail, YouTube, Google Translate or Google Maps. That’s not all. The welcome screen continues by asking you to set Chrome as your default browser.
Finally, Chrome also prompts you to enable sync. Your bookmarks and passwords will then be synced across all your devices. Easily with Chrome 77 Share link from one device running Chrome to another. A “send this page” icon now appears in the address bar when the option is enabled.
Chrome 77 also Extended Validation indicator disappearing for certificates in the URL bar. This certificate provides the strongest level of encryption and enables a website to give confidence to Internet users. Google says unfortunately many users don’t bother to check this screen. Therefore, the indicator will no longer appear in Chrome.
On the security side, the web browser no longer saves cookies, HTTP resources, and other data from hackers.insulation between sites“. This is an extra layer of security that allows Chrome to load each website by running its own process. The option is not new, but is now more complete. From now on, a website will also have to ask for permission to access Internet users’ links.
Click here to download Chrome 77 on Windows, Mac and Linux
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