Google Releases Chrome 72 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, Download Now

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Google Releases Chrome 72 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, Download Now 

After announcing the release of Chrome 72 for Android, Google promoted today the Chrome 72 web browser to the stable channel for Linux, Windows, and Mac computers too.

Google is introducing the Chrome 72 web browser for desktop platforms, including Linux, Mac, and Windows, a release that promises to add yet another layer of stability and security improvements in an attempt to offer you a better and more secure browsing experience whenever you're using Google Chrome.

Chrome 72 adds various novelties that the regular user won't notice, including a declaration of public class fields in scripts, a new User Activation Query API, service worker improvements, worker unhandled exception propagation, and other such elements that you can study in this in-depth article.

It also improves interoperability with other major web browsers and deprecates support for the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 security standards, with the removal expected to finish in Chrome 81, due early 2020. It also no longer allows pop-ups during page unload, removes HTTP-based public key pinning, and preps users for the FTP deprecation.

"When even the linux kernel is migrating off of it, it's time to move on. One step toward deprecation and removal is to deprecate rendering resources from FTP servers and instead download them. Chrome will still generate directory listings, but any non-directory listing will be downloaded rather than rendered in the browser," said Google.Chrome 72 contains 58 security fixesWith this release, Google fixes no less than 58 security vulnerabilities that affect numerous components of its Chromium-based web browser. Details about the security fixes implemented in Chrome 72 are available in the release announcement, along with the rewards received by the security researchers who discovered them.

The Google Chrome 72.0.3626.81 release is now rolling out to Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms and can be installed through the OTA (Over-the-Air) update system if you go to the Chrome menu and access the About Google Chrome page. You can also download Google Chrome 72.0.3626.81 for Linux, macOS, and Windowsthrough our web portal.

 

 

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Google released Google Chrome 72 to the public on January 30, 2019. The new version of the web browser patches 58 different security vulnerabilities and introduces other changes or fixes.

 

Most Chrome users should get the update automatically as the browser is configured by default to download and install new updates when they become available.  You may run a manual check for updates in desktop versions of Google Chrome by loading chrome://settings/help in the browser's address bar.

 

Downloads are also available on the official Chrome website; we suggest that you download Chrome offline installers to avoid Net installer issues.

 

The official release notes highlight only the security fixes but make no mention of other changes. The update patches a critical security issue and several issues rated as high.

 

 

The official changelog -- it is huge and will take a while to load -- lists other changes that went into Google Chrome 72. Since you may not want to speed hours or even days going through that monster of a changelog, here is a list of important changes found in it:

• Chrome fixes password manager logic that decides whether password manager is available. Basically, fixes this for proxy.
• AV1 decoder support is enabled by default. Google removed the flag that controlled it from Chrome 72.
• The flag chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-one-click-unelide, if enabled, performs unelision whenever the omnibox is focused, via either keyboard, mouse, or gesture tap.
• Removed option to set the default polling rate using the GamepadPollingRate flag. Google set it to 250 Hz and states that the flag is no longer necessary because of that.
• Removed Site Per Process flag from desktop platforms because it is enabled by default and no longer needed.
• Added replay button to picture-in-picture mode.
• Android: gesture-nav flag on chrome://flags to enable gesture navigation to go back and forward.
• Several crash fixes.

Chrome developers may want to check out the What's new in Chrome 72 video on the Google Chrome Developers YouTube channel to find out what is new

 

Source: Google Chrome 72 Stable is out (gHacks - Martin Brinkmann)

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