Chrome 88 Released With Security Fixes, Adobe Flash Removed
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Chrome 88)
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Google has released Chrome 88 as the latest stable version of their cross-platform web browser.
Some of the key highlights of Chrome 88 include:
- 36 security fixes, including for a critical issue over insufficient policy enforcement in Cryptohome. There are also many security issues resolved that were considered high priority.
- Adobe Flash Player support has been completely cleared out now that Adobe Flash is end-of-life upstream.
- The target="_blank" behavior now implies rel="noopener" by default for security purposes.
- CSS aspect-ratio property support as well as support for "hyphens: auto" mode.
- Various WebXR improvements like lighting estimation and dynamic viewport scaling.
- Support for FTP has been completely removed from Google Chrome following its earlier deprecation.
See more information via [1]the Chrome releases blog .
[1] https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html
Some of the key highlights of Chrome 88 include:
- 36 security fixes, including for a critical issue over insufficient policy enforcement in Cryptohome. There are also many security issues resolved that were considered high priority.
- Adobe Flash Player support has been completely cleared out now that Adobe Flash is end-of-life upstream.
- The target="_blank" behavior now implies rel="noopener" by default for security purposes.
- CSS aspect-ratio property support as well as support for "hyphens: auto" mode.
- Various WebXR improvements like lighting estimation and dynamic viewport scaling.
- Support for FTP has been completely removed from Google Chrome following its earlier deprecation.
See more information via [1]the Chrome releases blog .
[1] https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_19.html
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