As the last major update of 2022, Google He launched yesterday tuesday Chrome 108. Once again, it seems that they are focusing on improving the user experience, on tweaking things that seem to be missing, but do exist. It is the internal improvements that make progress in this regard, and an example may be when support is added for an image format that until now could not be seen from the browser.
Chrome 108 didn't add support for any new image formats (in fact, the last news we had about it was to remove one), but it did for more css properties. These types of rules are tweaks that web designers make to make a page look the way they want it to, and without these rules we could see something very different. Although the truth is that designers tend to look at pages like caniuse.com to make sure that a property is widespread enough, that is, browsers tend to be ahead of the curve, and that's Google's intention in adding this support.
Some new features of Chrome 108
Chrome 108 has arrived after the browser v107, and among its novelties, we have:
- Official support for the management of federated credentials (Federated Credentials Management or FedCM). Before it was as WebID.
- New supported CSS properties:
- break-after.
- break-before.
- break inside.
- Support for the "overflow" property for replaced elements that go outside the content of a box.
- Supported sv*, lv*, dv* and vi/vb units.
- Now that possible to print with LayoutNG instead of the legacy engine.
- Support for MSE within DedicatedWorker contexts.
- Support for the COLRv1 variable.
- Various removals of developer features that are no longer used.
- Bug fixes, performance and security improvements.
Chrome 108 can now be downloaded from their website for all supported systems. Linux-based operating systems that add the Google repository after the first install should already have received the new version.