Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts (piunikaweb.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/31/0549203/chrome-is-using-ai-to-fix-hundreds-of-bugs-eliminate-full-browser-restarts
- Source link: https://piunikaweb.com/2026/07/31/chrome-is-using-ai-to-fix-bugs-browser-restarts/
> Alongside dynamic patching, Google is rolling out smarter background updates during periods of minimal user disruption. Starting with Chrome 150 on macOS, the browser takes advantage of the operating system's windowless state. If all Chrome windows are closed but the app remains running in the background, the browser will quietly auto-restart to apply pending updates.
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> For enterprise environments, IT admins can continue to manage fleet-wide deployments through Chrome Enterprise Core or enforce update prompts using the RelaunchNotification policy. Google's long-term vision is a browser that remains continuously protected in the background without interrupting your daily browsing session. In the meantime, you can manually trigger pending updates by clicking the update prompt in the top-right corner of Chrome.
[1] https://piunikaweb.com/2026/07/31/chrome-is-using-ai-to-fix-bugs-browser-restarts/
[2] https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/
This isn't even news, it's a slashvertisment (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah Google is going to tell everybody that AI is the new hotness allowing them to make all their software the bestest. And I have no doubt that their tools will find some bugs that nobody cares about.
It would be funny if all these tools really did work though to the point where all the security vulnerabilities that that Israeli company uses to break into our phones for law enforcement got fixed up so that law enforcement couldn't just break into your phone anytime they want.
On the other hand the way the laws are changing right now and the way our civilization is rapidly going back to a feudal system of government we're not going to have enough civil liberties for any of that to matter but it's still an interesting thought experiment.
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The thing is, Google is winning. Almost every browser is just a Chrome skin now. Firefox continues its slow spiral into irrelevance.
Funnily enough Firefox recently did the same thing. Integrated AI into the browser, and used AI to find bugs in the code. Shame they couldn't use AI to refactor the code into something that might actually gain some traction. There's a reason why every other browser is a Chrome skin.
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yes, that reason is tracking and privacy options.
Good job, you cracked the case.
Using AI to find and fix bugs... (Score:3)
...is the proper use of the technology.
Focusing strictly on "productivity' and churning out crappy software faster is not.
We need AI that helps us create better software: bug-free, efficient, secure, maintainable, well documented, with all edge cases handled.
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> We need AI that helps us create better software: bug-free, efficient, secure, maintainable, well documented, with all edge cases handled.
Except LLMs cannot do any of that, unless your standards are really low. To be fair, most of software industry has abysmally low standards for quality and security and LLMs may actually do better in many cases. Not they they would be able to do well.
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> We need AI that helps us create better software: bug-free, efficient, secure, maintainable, well documented, with all edge cases handled.
In my experience AI does this exceptionally well already. You can describe your software architecture in excruciating detail, and AI (any frontier model FWIW) will happily dissect your plan and highlight all these little weaknesses, omissions, loose descriptions and contradictions, which would later hamper your software project. It's amazing, what it can find.
AI will also refine your architecture, and make very smart suggestions, if you have multiple options to chose from, and so on. Of course, it knows all
Re: Using AI to find and fix bugs... (Score:2)
If your pseudo code, sorry, I mean fine detail "architecture", is that comprehe dive you might just as well write actual code and let it fix that. IMO however AI code often doesnt even compile, has logical errors and is bloated. However YMMV.
Probably time to stop using Chrome then (Score:3)
Letting AI do your coding is never a good idea. Patching included. There are now documented cases where LLM-done "security patches" created new vulnerabilities. And they have a tendency to not fully fix the original vulnerabilities on top of that.
"Cheaper than possible"-type fake engineering at its best.
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I'm sure, that Microsoft's hand crafted "security fixes" would have never done such a thing :-D
Thorough testing (Score:3)
Changing out running code on the fly probably increases the number of corner cases by an order of magnitude.
What could possibly go wrong?
Why do browsers have so many bugs at all? (Score:2)
Chrome is obviously collapsing under the weight of so many web standards, time to announce a true cleanup period instead of constant updates.
Real bugs or typos in comments? (Score:2)
For over a year now, there's no way to turn off scrolling inertia (aka dynamic scrolling) in Chrome on Linux. The problem apparently being in the engine, Edge and Chromium have the same bug. While I've no idea what the utility of this "feature" is, I cant turn it off, and since no amount of bug reports are of any use, I hope AI can find/fix it
Yeah, I know, this means I'll be using Firefox with all its issues for a looooooong time.
Re: Real bugs or typos in comments? (Score:2)
Desktop Firefox is pretty good for me these days.
Mobile is trash, slashdot makes it crash multiple times a day. I'm using brave now, it has the best ad blocker...
Don't Care! (Score:2)
I still won't use chrome as my go to browser.
But that sounds like a bug.. (Score:2)
Chrome windows are closed but the app remains running in the background
That is a bug, and no one can prove me wrong.
That explains some shit (Score:4, Insightful)
I've noticed that chrome is dramatically less stable lately...
Re:That explains some shit (Score:4, Funny)
> I've noticed that chrome is dramatically less stable lately...
Yeah, but did you take a hit of that vibe code? Shits fyre, bruh. I'm talking 90% fresh.
Me and my Botz got you, bruh.
- Phat AI-bert
Re: That explains some shit (Score:2)
They're fixing bugs though so clearly that can't be true...
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Ask Intel if security fixes can slow down your CPU ...
Re: That explains some shit (Score:2)
I would but I'm still waiting for the typing to catch up on their contact form.
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The slop-vibe will do that. I expect many of these vulnerabilities will only have been partially fixed on top of that and some "fixes" will have created new vulnerabilities. The attackers are having a celebration right now.