Google Chrome 96 is out: here are the news

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Google released Chrome 96 for all supported desktop operating systems and Android this week; the new version is 96.0.4664.45. No mention of security updates in the release.

Chromium 96

Google plans to roll out the update to all devices running Chrome in the coming weeks. Desktop users can speed up the process by loading chrome: // settings / help in the browser’s address bar. The page that opens shows the currently installed version and checks for updates. The new version will be downloaded and installed automatically. A reboot is required to complete the process.

The official Chrome Releases blog post offers virtually no version information. It lists the version number and also the extended stable version of Chrome has been promoted to Chrome 96. Google recently switched to a 4 week release cycle for Chrome and created the extended channel to increase the release period to every other. version (8 weeks).

A Chrome 96 beta post on the Chromium blog reveals information on what’s new in the new version. Here is a list of important changes:

HTTPS is used to connect to websites if an HTTPS record is available from the domain name service (DNS). Web applications can register as URL protocol handlers, for example to initiate Twitter links using the Twitter PWA or FTP links using a Web FTP application. New Origin Trial: Conditional Focus Applications that capture other windows or tabs do not have currently way to check if the calling item or the scanned item is triggered. (Think of a presentation function in a video conferencing app.) Chrome 96 makes this possible with a subclass of MediaStreamTrack called FocusableMediaStreamTrack, which supports a new focus () method. New Origin Trial Version: Priority HintsPriority Hints introduces a developer-set “importance” attribute to affect a resource’s calculated priority. The supported importance values ​​are “auto”, “low” and “high”. Priority hints indicate the relative importance of a resource to the browser, allowing greater control over the order in which resources are loaded. Back forward cache on the desktop for faster navigations to “previously visited pages after navigating between sites”. New policy no credentials for Cross-Origin- Embedder-Policy Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy has a new no-credential option that causes cross-origin no-cors requests to omit credentials (cookies, client certificates, and so on). Similar to COEP: require-corp, it can enable cross-origin isolation. Unique IDs for desktop PWAs. The appmanifest specification does not explicitly define what uniquely identifies a PWA. Currently, in the desktop versions of Chromium-based and Firefox-based browsers on Android, PWAs are uniquely identified by the app’s start_url, and Android Chromium-based browsers use manifest_url instead. This is confusing for developers. It also prevented developers from modifying start_url and manifest_url. Having a stable ID allows apps to update other metadata like start_url and manifest_url and have a consistent way to refer to apps across browser platforms, PWA stores, and other external entities. This feature tracks the startup process for the desktop-side rollout, as the Android rollout will run with a different timeline. Both will follow the same specification. Improved content security policy to improve interoperability with WebAssembly. Deprecated: The PaymentRequest API has deprecated the basic card payment method. It will be removed in Chrome 100.

Google is also running a test to find out if Chrome version 100 will cause problems on the internet. Site owners and users can verify this by enabling the chrome: // flags / # force-major-version-to-100 flag.

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Google Chrome 96 is out: here are the news

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Google released Chrome 96 for all supported desktop operating systems and Android this week; the new version is 96.0.4664.45. No mention of security updates in the release.

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