Chrome is getting a new look today, 10 years after Google’s browser first launched. The new design includes rounded shapes and tabs, a fresh color palette, and updated icons. Google is updating the whole of Chrome to include this new user interface, and altering prompts, menus, and URLs in the address bar to match the new design. It’s a big overhaul. The new rounded tabs are perhaps the most noticeable change, moving Chrome away from the trapezoid-like shaped tabs that have been available for years. Chrome’s new tabs are designed to be easier to see at a glance, which will be useful for those who like to have far too many tabs open in their browser. New features appear alongside the redesign Google is also tweaking how its omnibox (address bar) works by showing answers to results directly in the bar without opening a new tab. Results like information on celebrities, sporting events, and weather will automatically appear in the address bar, and you’ll even be able to use the address bar to find an open tab and switch to it. Google is making some changes to how autofill works in Chrome. This latest version, Chrome 69, will more accurately fill in passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers into forms and store this information in a Google Account. Google is also getting an improved password manager that will automatically generate and suggest a strong password for sites when you sign up to them. Chrome will then store this password and make it available on both desktop and mobile. The new Chrome design will be available across desktop on PC and Mac, and of course on the mobile versions of Chrome on iOS and Android. Chrome for iOS is getting a significant overhaul as Google is moving the toolbar to the bottom to make it easier to reach items in the browser. The next 10 years of Chrome will be about smarts and AI Alongside the new design, Google is also celebrating Chrome’s 10th birthday. The company has updated its Dino Game Easter egg, that appears when there’s no internet connectivity, to include birthday cakes, party hats, and balloons. It’s a fun addition, but Google is also hinting at what the next 10 years of Chrome might look like. While Google has been integrating machine learning into Chrome to detect phishing and malware sites, the company has plans to make its browser even more smarter with the help of artificial intelligence. Google imagines scenarios where you search for a song and get the singer’s bio, an upcoming concert, and the ability to purchase tickets in Chrome. Google is also looking at improving activities like vacation planning where you have to juggle multiple tabs and documents, to make it easier to switch between hotel research and booking flights. “When we first launched Chrome, Sundar said: ‘We think of the browser as the window to the web,’” says Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Google’s vice president of product management. “A decade later, it’s still the tool people use to access all of the websites and applications that help them do what they want to do. As Chrome heads into the next 10 years, we want to expand that window—so you can see more and do more.”<doc-sep>Yes, the major public clouds offer a lot. But what you may not know are the limitations, and how open clouds make the difference. Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Google today launched Chrome 69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Android, and iOS, just a few days after the browser’s 10-year anniversary. The release includes a new design, more powerful omnibox, updated password manager, more accurate autofill, plenty of developer-specific changes, and a slew of security improvements. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome’s built-in updater, download it directly from google.com/chrome, or grab it from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. With over 1 billion users, Chrome is a browser as well as a major platform that web developers must consider. In fact, with Chrome’s regular additions and changes, developers often must make an effort to stay on top of everything available — as well as what has been deprecated or removed. New look and new features Chrome’s new look, based on Material 2 principles, includes more rounded shapes, updated icons, and a new color palette. Prompts and menus have been simplified, while tabs are now shaped to make website icons easier to see. The Material 2 design applies to desktop and mobile, and on iOS the revamp includes moving the toolbar to the bottom “so it’s easy to reach.” Google has even dropped the HTTP/HTTPS protocol designator from the address bar, so URLs no longer start with that prefix. Speaking of Chrome’s address bar, which Google calls the omnibox, it can now show you answers without having to open a new tab (including rich results on public figures or sporting events, instant answers like the local weather via weather.com, or a translation of a foreign word). If you search for a website in your omnibox, Chrome can now tell you if it’s already open and let you jump straight to it by clicking “Switch to tab.” Chrome 69 can also more accurately fill in your passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers — all this information is saved to your Google account, accessible directly from the Chrome toolbar. Chrome’s password manager has also been improved: When it’s time to create a new password, Chrome for desktop can now generate a unique password, save it, and make that login available on both your laptop and phone. It’s also now easier to personalize Chrome. You can create and manage shortcuts to your favorite websites directly from the new tab page (just hit “Add shortcut”) and customize the background of a newly opened tab with your favorite image. Security fixes and improvements Chrome 69 also continues Google’s war on HTTP sites. HTTPS is a more secure version of the HTTP protocol used on the internet to connect users to websites. Secure connections are widely considered a necessary measure to decrease the risk of users being vulnerable to content injection (which can result in eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, and other data modification). Data is kept secure from third parties, and users can be more confident they are communicating with the correct website. Google has been pushing the web to HTTPS for years, but it accelerated its efforts last year by making changes to Chrome’s user interface. Chrome 56, released in January 2017, started marking HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as “Not secure.” Chrome 62, released in October 2017, started marking HTTP sites with entered data and all HTTP sites viewed in Incognito mode as “Not secure.” Chrome 68, released in July, marks all HTTP sites as “Not secure” right in the address bar. Google isn’t stopping there. Now, with the release of Chrome 69, HTTPS sites no longer sport the “Secure” wording: With the release of Chrome 70, HTTP sites will show a red “Not secure” warning when users enter data: The plan was always to mark all HTTP sites as “Not secure.” Eventually, Google will change the icon beside the “Not secure” label and make the text red to further emphasize you should not trust HTTP sites: Chrome 69 also implements 40 security fixes. The following ones were found by external researchers: [$5000][867776] High CVE-2018-16065: Out of bounds write in V8. Reported by Brendon Tiszka on 2018-07-26 [$3000][847570] High CVE-2018-16066:Out of bounds read in Blink. Reported by cloudfuzzer on 2018-05-29 [$500][860522] High CVE-2018-16067: Out of bounds read in WebAudio. Reported by Zhe Jin（金哲），Luyao Liu(刘路遥) from Chengdu Security Response Center of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd on 2018-07-05 [N/A][877182] High CVE-2018-16068: Out of bounds write in Mojo. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2018-08-23 [N/A][848238] High CVE-2018-16069:Out of bounds read in SwiftShader. Reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on 2018-05-31 [N/A][848716] High CVE-2018-16070: Integer overflow in Skia. Reported by Ivan Fratric of Google Project Zero on 2018-06-01 [N/A][855211] High CVE-2018-16071: Use after free in WebRTC. Reported by Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero on 2018-06-21 [$4000][864283] Medium CVE-2018-16072: Cross origin pixel leak in Chrome’s interaction with Android’s MediaPlayer. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2018-07-17 [$3000][863069] Medium CVE-2018-16073: Site Isolation bypass after tab restore. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2018-07-12 [$3000][863623] Medium CVE-2018-16074: Site Isolation bypass using Blob URLS. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2018-07-13 [$2500][864932] Medium: Out of bounds read in Little-CMS. Reported by Quang Nguyễn (@quangnh89) of Viettel Cyber Security on 2018-07-18 [$2000][788936] Medium CVE-2018-16075: Local file access in Blink. Reported by Pepe Vila (@cgvwzq) on 2017-11-27 [$2000][867501] Medium CVE-2018-16076: Out of bounds read in PDFium. Reported by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos on 2018-07-25 [$1000][377995] Medium CVE-2018-16077: Content security policy bypass in Blink. Reported by Manuel Caballero on 2014-05-27 [$1000][858820] Medium CVE-2018-16078: Credit card information leak in Autofill. Reported by Cailan Sacks on 2018-06-28 [$500][723503] Medium CVE-2018-16079: URL spoof in permission dialogs. Reported by Markus Vervier and Michele Orrù (antisnatchor) on 2017-05-17 [$500][858929] Medium CVE-2018-16080: URL spoof in full screen mode. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2018-06-29 [N/A][666299] Medium CVE-2018-16081: Local file access in DevTools. Reported by Jann Horn of Google Project Zero on 2016-11-17 [N/A][851398] Medium CVE-2018-16082: Stack buffer overflow in SwiftShader. Reported by Omair on 2018-06-11 [N/A][856823] Medium CVE-2018-16083: Out of bounds read in WebRTC. Reported by Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero on 2018-06-26 [$1000][865202] Low CVE-2018-16084: User confirmation bypass in external protocol handling. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2018-07-18 [N/A][856578] Low CVE-2018-16085: Use after free in Memory Instrumentation. Reported by Roman Kuksin of Yandex on 2018-06-26 [$3000][853937] Medium To be allocated: Insufficient policy enforcement in Payments. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2018-06-18 [880418] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives Google thus spent at least $29,000 in bug bounties for this release. As always, the security fixes alone should be enough incentive for you to upgrade. Developer features Chrome 69 includes new CSS tricks. CSS conic (angular/sweep) gradients allow color transitions around a center rather than radiating from it (examples). Logical margin, padding, and border properties now use standard names, specifically margin-{block,inline}-{start,end}, padding-{block,inline}-{start,end} and border-{block,inline}-{start,end}-{width,style,color}. CSS scroll snap positions are offsets in a scroll container’s visual viewport where scrolling will stop after each scrolling operation, improving the user experience by allowing scrollable zones to easily stop at predefined points and enabling common scroll patterns without JavaScript. And finally, display cutouts are now supported through the new CSS env() function (environment variables) and the viewport-fit meta tag, letting developers take advantage of the entire screen on devices that have a display cutout. As with every version, Chrome 69 includes an update to the V8 JavaScript engine: version 6.9. It includes memory savings through embedded built-ins, WebAssembly’s new first-tier compiler Liftoff, faster DataView operations, and faster processing of WeakMaps during garbage collection. Check out the full list of changes for more information. Other developer features in this release include: Canvas: OffscreenCanvas is a new interface that allows 2D and WebGL canvas rendering contexts to be used in Workers. This increases parallelism in web applications and improves performance on multi-core systems. Chrome now also supports DedicatedWorker.requestAnimationFrame(), allowing animation-like events to be triggered the same on dedicated workers as they are in Window. DOM: A new method named Element.toggleAttribute() allows toggling the existence of an element’s attribute in a way similar to Element.classList.toggle.<doc-sep>New Chrome 69 will automatically generate passwords for users Watch Now After celebrating Chrome's ten-year anniversary on Sunday, Google released today version 69 of the Chrome browser, one of the most feature-rich versions in recent years. With today's release, Chrome now joins Mozilla and Microsoft as browser makers who completely redesigned their browsers. Firefox went through two major UI updates with the Aurora and Quantum releases, Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer with the lighter Edge, and, today, Google gave Chrome its first major facelift since its release in 2008. This new user interface is easy to spot because it uses a predominantly white color tone along with rounded tabs, a big shift from Chrome's regular grayish UI with angled tabs. Google Chrome says the new UI is better fitted for mobile devices, but the jury is still out with desktop users, some of whom have been grumbling for the past few months ever since Google started testing the new design back in late April. Nonetheless, the backlash hasn't been even close to same levels of animosity Mozilla faced when it released its Aurora interface redesign back in the early 2010s. While Google didn't make a big deal about it like it has in previous years when it redesigned a product, this new UI is also much more in sync with Google's Material Design design language. For the past two years, Google has slowly redesigned Chrome's settings panels with a Material Design look, but with today's release, the Material Design look has irrevocably seeped into the main browser interface as well. But besides the unignorable new UI, Google engineers also have other surprises for Chrome 69 users. The one that's most impressive, at least on the security front, is Chrome's new built-in random password generator. Every time users will focus their cursor inside a password field, Google will generate a random password and offer it to the user. If the user chooses to use it, Chrome will automatically save it in its password store. But be advised, users must be logged into a Google account to use this new Chrome feature. Google Also on the security front, Chrome 69 is another big step in Google's plans to remove Flash from the browser. As ZDNet reported last month, with Chrome 69, users accessing Flash-based sites will have to grant that site permission to run Flash after every browser restart. Until now, Chrome remembered per-site Flash settings, even after restarts. The end goal is to disable Flash by default in Chrome 76 (July 2019), and remove it from Chrome for good with version 87 in December 2020, when Adobe also plans to retire Flash. But besides security-focused features, other changes included in this release include a revamped New Tab page in the same Material Design style. Unlike past Chrome versions, Chrome 69's New Tab page now lets everyone customize the links they see, something that many users have wanted to do, but for which many needed custom extensions. The one feature ZDNet found missing in today's release is support for Picture-in-Picture, which Google began testing in May, and which it initially planned to ship with Chrome 69. The feature is present as a Chrome flag, but turning it on didn't work as intended when ZDNet tested Chrome 69 before this article's publication. Chrome 69 also includes patches for 40 security issues and a truckload of changes in the underlying Web APIs and CSS features the browser supports. Details about these developer-centric changes are available in this Chromium blog post, but also in this video. Related stories:<doc-sep>
Google’s Chrome 69 is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. (Image credit: Google) Google’s Chrome 69 is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. (Image credit: Google) Google is celebrating Chrome’s 10th anniversary with a redesign. The browser is getting a design overhaul that brings new icons, rounded shapes and new colour palette. The new version is called Chrome 69 and it is now rolling out across desktop, iOS, and Android. The major update is in line with Google’s Material Design approach, which gives the browser a modern touch. “Today, in honour of Chrome’s 10th birthday, we’re launching several new features,” Rahul Roy Chowdhury, VP of Product Development at Google, stated in a blog post. “Our newest update includes a refreshed design that lets you navigate the web faster, and a completely revamped password manager and updated autofill so you can get things done more easily and securely. And Chrome’s search box (the “Omnibox”) gives you more information directly as you type, saving you even more time”. Google announced Chrome on September 2, 2008 and over the past few years it has become the world’s most popular browser beating the likes of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla’s Firefox. Here’s what’s new with Chrome 69. How to download Google Chrome 69 On the desktop, all you need to click on the three-dot icons on the right-hand side of your Chrome window, select Settings, click the Menu Bar, and click About Chrome. Now you have to update Chrome to the latest version i.e. Chrome 69. On mobile, open Apple App store or Google Play Store to update the app. Google Chrome 69: Material Design Perhaps the first thing you will notice in Chrome 69 is the brand new user interface. Google has adopted its Material Design 2 philosophy to give the browser an all-new design, which is a welcome move. The redesign features “more rounded shapes, new icons, and a new color palette”. Tabs, for instance, now feature rounded corners so you can navigate them better. And on iOS, the toolbar has been moved to the bottom, closer to where thumbs are. Plus, there are customisable options, too. Users can now customise the “New Tab” page with an uploaded background image or a Google collection. In addition, the “New Tab” page now includes a plus button titled “Add shortcut” that essentially allows you to add a custom shortcut. Previously, the tiles used to automatically generated based on the sites you visit. Google Chrome 69: An improved search bar The search bar — which is commonly known as the Omnibox — can now show more information without needing to open a new tab. A smarter Omnibox displays results for the weather, public figures, translations, and answers to your questions. In the near future, you will be soon able to search through Google Drive right from the search bar. Pick a screen, any screen. We’ve got something new for you, no matter where you use #GoogleChrome https://t.co/dKBdXSOUUi pic.twitter.com/0GzvTmpoiJ — Google Chrome (@googlechrome) September 4, 2018 Google Chrome 69: New Password Manager Google has improved the way Chrome handles passwords. Now when you sign up for new sites it will recommend a strong password. This password will be saved in the built-in password manager so that the next time you visit that site it automatically fills the account credentials. There’s a positive side tostoring these passwords in your Google account – after all, you will be available on Chrome on both desktop and mobile. Google Chrome 69: Focus on AI and Machine Learning Google is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to make your browsing experience much safer and productive. “AI is already working for you in features like Google Translate in Chrome, which uses a state-of-the-art AI-based translation engine to bring all the world’s information to you in a language you can understand, right in your browser”, writes Roy. “We’ve also integrated machine learning to detect phishing and malware sites, and most recently began applying it to detect malicious extensions.”