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Announced the launch of the new version of the popular web browser «Chrome 119«, version in which the new release cycle, as well as improvements to the address bar, developer improvements, in the Android version and more.
In Chrome 119, in addition to innovations and bug fixes, the new version eliminates 15 vulnerabilities, of which none of them presented critical problems that allow bypassing all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox environment.
Main news of Google Chrome 119
In this new version of Google Chrome 119 that is presented, one of the most important changes that stands out is the presentation of the new release cycle, in which the release generation cycle has been shortened and the time between the creation of a new branch and the start of beta testing has been reduced.
Another of the changes that stands out in the new version is the URL autocompletion now takes any keyword into account previously used to search for a site, and not just the words that match the beginning of the address. It is also possible to search in bookmark sections through the address bar. For example, you can bookmark a section name as you type and Chrome will suggest links from that section that match the keyword you entered.
We can also find in this new version of Chrome 119 that the ability to save groups of tabs is provided, with it now the user can now save the group and close the included tabs in it so that they do not consume resources and later, when the need arises, the saved group tabs can be recovered and also opened on other devices participating in tab synchronization. The feature is enabled for some users and to force it, the “chrome://flags/#tab-groups-save” setting must be used.
The interface has changed the wording of operations and settings related to data deletion and loss. Instead of the term “delete”, the word “delete” is now used in such operations, since individual users did not perceive the word “delete” as a sign of irrecoverable data loss.
Besides that, Improved readability of information in the address bar and has made the interface more responsive: results are now displayed immediately after you start typing in the address bar. It was implemented automatic typo correction when entering the address of a site and relevant suggestions were displayed, the formation of which takes into account the sites previously opened by the current user. For example, typing "youtube" will prompt you to open YouTube.com.
We can also find that Implemented display of recommendations for popular sites, even if the user has not visited them before or made a mistake when entering the URL. For example, when, following someone's recommendation to open Google Earth, the user starts typing "google" without knowing the exact address, the browser will offer to go to Earth.google.com.
In the Android version, when standard browser protection is enabled, real-time security verification of open URLs is implemented, based on the transfer of partial hashes of the URLs opened by the user to Google servers.
To prevent the user's IP address and hash from matching, the data is transmitted through an intermediate proxy. Previously, verification was performed by downloading a local copy of the list of unsafe URLs to the user's system. The new scheme allows you to block malicious URLs more quickly. For desktop systems, a similar mode was enabled in the latest version.
On the part of the Developer improvements:
- According to the change in the Fetch API specification, the Authorization HTTP header is removed when redirecting to another domain (cross-origin).
- Removed the non-standard shadowRoot attribute, which allows native elements to access their own separate root in the Shadow DOM, regardless of state.
- Improved HTML element implementation » », which resembles an «iframe» and also allows third-party content to be embedded on the page.
- Added a monitorTypeSurfaces parameter to the getDisplayMedia() method that can be used to prevent the entire screen from being shared.
- Added an experimental fullscreen parameter (source test) to the window.open() method, allowing you to immediately open the window in fullscreen mode.
- Added “bitrateMode” flag to the AudioEncoderConfig API to select between constant and variable bitrate.
- Support for the WasmGC extension is enabled by default, which simplifies the migration of programs written in programming languages that use a garbage collector.
- Improvements have been made to the web developer tools.
- Added the ability to edit @property CSS rules and display warnings if they are defined incorrectly.
- Updated list of emulated devices (e.g. iPhone 14 and Pixel 7 added).
- Autocompletion of private fields is implemented in the web console.
- Provided format of JSON data placed within blocks
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can check the details of this new release in the following link.
How to install Google Chrome 119 on Linux?
If you are interested in being able to install this new version of this web browser and you still do not have it installed, You can visit the following publication where we teach you how to install it on some Linux distributions.