The Chrome browser dominates the browser market with an iron fist and is installed on almost 3 out of 4 computers, therefore, the friends of foreigners focus their activity on looking for vulnerabilities to access the data of the users. users, just as it happens with Windows as an operating system, hence the importance of installing all the updates that are released.
The browser is one of the means of entry used by hackers to access user data, since it is the main means of communication for any computer with the Internet. If we talk about Chrome, we have to talk about the latest update that Google has released, a major update now available that fixes 16 software issues.
As we can read on the Chrome blog, the new version of this browser, with which it reaches version 114, has corrected the following vulnerabilities: all vulnerabilities, although it only talks about 13 of them, which have not been detected by Google engineers. Of these 13, 8 were considered to be of high severity, 4 had a medium degree of severity, and 1 was mild.
The process to update Chrome to the latest version is as simple as opening the browser and waiting a few seconds for it to detect that a new version is available and proceed to download it to our computer. If it does not update automatically, we can form it through the Help > Information menu of Google Chrome.
What’s new in Chrome version 114
With each new version of the browser, Google not only focuses its activity on fixing vulnerabilities, but also takes the opportunity to introduce new features. On this occasion, the novelties arrive for the Enterprise and Education versions in their versions for Android, ChromeOS and Linux, versions that instead of using the certificate store of the operating system, it uses that of the browser itself.
Another novelty that is introduced in this version is the Chrome password manager, which is now called Google Password Manager and which includes three new functions that analyze similar passwords, the flow of checking leaked passwords is improved and we have the possibility to access this manager through a shortcut from the desktop.
We also find new features in the safe browsing function which, depending on the type of browsing we select, changes its operation to improve protection against a certain type of malware associated with nested files.
Version 114 is not only available for Windows, but we can also find it on iOS and Android mobile devices. In the iOS version, password checking has been improved to find out if they are considered safe. Plus, locally stored Chrome settings are maintained independently from those in the cloud, so no changes are overwritten.
