14 DAY TRIAL // Google has recently releases Chrome 66 for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and this time, the changelog includes both security fixes and refinements to performance and the built-in features.
Chrome 66.0.3359.117 comes with a total of 62 security fixes, and this emphasizes just how important it is for users to install the new version as soon as possible.
Google has paid thousands of dollars in bounties to security researchers who discovered vulnerabilities in its browser, including $7500 to an unnamed individual who reported a user-after-free bug in WebAssembly.
There are two critical security flaws fixed in Chrome 66, both of them reported by Ned Williamson and describing a use-after-free vulnerability in Disk Cache.
Further mitigations against the Spectre flaw
Additionally, Chrome 66 also introduces new mitigations against the Spectre vulnerability discovered in Intel, AMD, and ARM processors and disclosed in early January. Chrome has until now relied on Site Isolation to protect users, and with this new update, the browser will include a small percentage trial of this feature to prepare for a broader upcoming launch, according to Google.
There are also several other smaller changes that Google has details in the official announcement, including more refinements to the way the browser handles certificates.
“Chrome 66 will not trust website certificates issued by Symantec's legacy PKI before June 1st 2016, continuing the phased distrust outlined in our previous announcements,” the search company explained.
Google Chrome is right now the number one desktop browser worldwide with a market share that exceeds 60 percent. Despite Microsoft pushing its own Edge browser rather aggressively on Windows 10, Chrome has survived in a remarkable way, gaining market share pretty much every month.
You can download the new version of Google Chrome for Windows, Linux, and Mac from Softpedia right now.