Google launched a few hours ago a new major update of your web browser, understand by major those that change the first number. This August 2, he gave us Chrome 104, and it has arrived without a large number of outstanding novelties, but at least one that does attract attention, in part because it will improve privacy a little. Have you never made a video call and wanted something from your environment not to come out? That's what the thing is about.
Chrome 104, what happens to the v103 from six weeks ago, now support the capturing a region as part of the video tracks They are often used for video conferences. The intention of this function is basically to eliminate what we do not want to leave our surroundings, such as a painting if we are on a sofa or the bed if we do not have it made if we are in our room. This will offer us a clipping tool in which we can choose what we share.
Chrome 104 improves WebGL canvas color management
Among the rest of the novelties, we also have:
- New source tests, such as for shared item transitions and credit card storage exclusion.
- Scalping Rules Management Updates
- Added to the multiscreen window placement interface.
- WebGL canvas color management has been added to allow WebGL to set the color space when drawing a buffer and a color space when importing a texture.
- Several new APIs, once again, for developers to make the user experience look better. For example, there are some for CSS, which will make some things look better.
- Various security patches coming to you from Chromium, and will also come to other browsers using the same engine.
- List of changes, in this link.
Chrome 104 was announced yesterday evening in Spain, so existing macOS and Windows users have already received the update. For Linux users, it will depend a bit on the distribution. Those based on Debian/Ubuntu and others that add the repository after the first installation will also have received the new packages. The installer is available at this link.