It's not a very pretty number, and in fact I seem to have read something about it not being counted that way anymore, but Google Chrome 100 was released yesterday March 29. It introduces many novelties, but those that we can see always attract our attention. The 100th version could not be one more, and Google wanted to take advantage of the occasion to redesign the icon of its browser. Even so, as we see in the previous image (via Elvin on Twitter), they have changed little with respect to the previous version that dated from 2014.
The designs are evolving, it is the law of life. In 2008, glitter and what seemed real was popular, later things began to be "ironed" and now minimalist is popular. In the 2011 logo we already saw an important simplification, three years later it became a little flatter and in the current one, that of Chrome 100, have removed all traces of highlights and shadows.
Chrome 100 highlights
This version, which succeeds v99, comes with these news:
- New logo, now more simplified than ever. There are also new versions of the logo in the mobile and tablet applications.
- New multi-screen window placement API to better handle multi-window applications that need to precisely position certain windows and other similar usage cases. Example use cases for the Multi-Screen Window Placement API include for slideshows on screens, a finance application for a Windows panel on monitors, medical imaging applications, or creativity applications on multi-screens, among others. others..
- The Digital Goods API is being introduced to query/manage digital goods around in-app purchases from web apps. Web apps within the Google Play Store can now easily accept digital product purchases. The Digital Goods API is initially treated as a proof of origin.
- A "lighter" value for the CSS option in blend-blend mode to allow two elements to fade by changing their opacities from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 0 on the other element while keeping the common pixels unchanged.
- Capability delegation support where a framework can relinquish its ability to call a restricted API and transfer the capability to another sub-framework that it trusts.
Google Chrome 100 can now be downloaded since official website. For Linux users, those who are on a distribution to which a repository is added after the browser installation will have already received the update. For users of a distribution based on Arch Linux it is already available in AUR.