Four weeks ago, the company that became famous for developing the world's most used search engine launched the v102 from your web browser. Among its novelties we had a better management of files and captures, and today they have launched a Chrome 103 which will also improve some procedures. For example, those of AVIF-format, an off-road format with which it is worth being up-to-date, since there will come a time when it will be standardized on the web and outside of it.
Also, in Chrome 103 there has been a return, that of the browser's pre-rendering mechanism. In the past there were some security problems, but they have already been solved and it has been added again in the version available since this afternoon. Next you have the list of most outstanding novelties that have arrived alongside Chrome 103.
Chrome 103 highlights
- Performance improvements thanks to the re-implementation of pre-rendering, which will be especially noticeable when loading pages.
- New speculation rules that will also improve page loads.
- AVIF files are now supported in Web Share.
- Ability for applications to use local fonts.
- Improvements in FedCM, which will improve privacy.
- AbortSignal objects are getting a new timeout() method that takes milliseconds as an argument.
- JavaScript API to modify the ARIA attribute directly.
- Raw deflate compression method for streams.
- Element.isVisible() method that does exactly what the name implies.
- Ability of web applications to voluntarily forget serial ports.
- Fire popstate immediately after URL changes.
- Other improvements for developers.
Chrome 103 this one has been released late, so the update will roll out for Windows and macOS users very soon, if it hasn't already. It will also appear as an update soon in Linux distributions that add their official repository after the first update, while the rest will have to wait a little longer.