14 DAY TRIAL // Google has promoted the Chrome 77 web browser to the stable channel for all supported platforms, including Linux, Android, Windows, and Mac.
Google Chrome 77 introduces several performance enhancements to speed up your browsing experience, including new performance metrics that helps web developers measure how fast the content of a web page loads so you can access it faster than ever, as well as new form capabilities to support custom form controls.
"It has not always been easy for developers to measure how quickly the main content of a web page loads and is visible to users. The usefulness of existing metrics varies. Some metrics are only measurable in a lab, while others tell nothing about content that users care about. Consider the example below, taken from a DevTools performance audit," said Google.
Additionally, Google Chrome 77 introduces new origin trials that lets you to try new Chrome features before they are released and give feedback to the web standards community on their usability, effectiveness, and practicality. Users will be able to register for the origin trials here.
52 security vulnerabilities patched
Among other new features included in the Google Chrome 77 release, we can mention a new Enter Key Hint content attribute, feature policy control over document.domain, layout instability monitoring, the ability to limit the "referer" header's length to 4kB and the registerProtocolHandler() url argument to http or https.
Of course, there are also various other smaller changes that aren't visible to users, but that will make your Chrome experience better. Last but not least, Google fixed a total of 52 security vulnerabilities in Chrome 77, and you can learn all about them in the release announcement.
Meanwhile, you can download Google Chrome 77 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows right now or update your installations via OTA updates. Android users can update to Google Chrome 77 by installing it from the Google Play store app directly on their devices.
