After its release yesterday .. Discover the new features of Chrome 92

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Google releases new versions of Chrome every six weeks, and the latest version to be released is Chrome 92 Chrome 92, where the “android police” website said the new browser has been available for download since yesterday Wednesday, and it’s chock full of ‘interface experiences. , security enhancements, web application enhancements, and performance upgrades.

In the following lines, we show you everything you need to know about the new Chrome 92 browser.

1- Interface experiences:

Google is constantly tweaking Chrome’s interface with various A / B tests, and the latest version of Chrome seems to activate some differences for some people.

After integrating Google Lens search with the normal image search in Chrome, Google now also brings the Lens camera shortcut to Chrome’s address bar, with the camera icon in the corner. upper right for some.

Google is also continuing its experiments with additional buttons in the top bar. For some people, Chrome 92 adds a new tab button between the address bar and the tab picker while others see a share button.

We’ve seen Chrome experiment with these layouts before, but it looks like Google is getting more aggressive in offering them to users. We have more details about this experience in our dedicated coverage.

For the desktop, Google offers additional Chrome actions, which we described earlier as part of the Chrome OS update.

Chrome Actions is a quick way to control certain browser features right from the address bar, where you can type things like “clear cookies” or “manage passwords” to go directly to the corresponding parameters.

In Chrome 92, Google is adding three new commands: Manage Security Settings, Manage Sync, and Check Security, and the latter allows you to quickly check the security of passwords, extensions, and more.

2- Site isolation improvements:

The new version of Chrome also improves site isolation. Site isolation was first introduced in 2018, due to Specter and Meltdown security vulnerabilities in Intel and ARM chips, and while it removes some attack vectors, its downside was increased use of RAM.

Chrome 92 extends site isolation to browser extensions, preventing them from sharing processes with each other. This gives you an additional layer of security without removing the existing capabilities of extensions.

On Android, Google continues to prioritize performance over strict isolation of all sites, in essence it will still be that way in Chrome 92, but the new version adds a few more rules.

“Site isolation will be applied to sites where users log in through third-party providers, as well as sites with Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy headers,” Google wrote in a blog post.

3- More effective phishing protection

In the phishing section, Google says that “detection is now 50 times faster and consumes less energy” thanks to advances in image processing. To identify phishing sites, Chrome analyzes the color profile of the page visited and compares it to a group of known phishing sites. When a match is found, the browser issues a warning and discourages you from visiting the site in question.

Because Google does not send these color profiles to its servers to protect your privacy by default, images must be processed on your device, and Google has improved this process by reducing the number of calculations and grouping color pixels together. similar. This translates to less CPU usage (1.2% of total CPU time, to be exact), better battery life, and earlier warnings. Check Google for a deeper dive.

4- File processing API:

Do you know how to select the app to open certain types of files on Android? Right now, this dialog is mostly limited to apps that are already installed (or at least those installed through the Play Store), but Google wants to change that to add web apps to your phone through Chrome. Once developers have set up support, you will be able to choose a web application as the default destination to open certain types of files.

The same change will also affect web apps installed through Chrome on desktops, as those apps will live in the context menu along with native apps. This will make it easier to rely on web applications for workflows that include local files, which is something important for photo and text editors and the like.

Google describes, for example, that after a PWA text editor registers as a file manager, you can right-click a .txt file in your system’s file manager. exploitation and ask this PWA (always or only once) to open the .txt files. This means that Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are only one (double) click away from File Manager.

5- Videoconferencing procedures in view of PIP:

While there is dedicated desktop software for most video conferencing platforms, a lot can also be done in Chrome these days, and Google wants to make the experience even better by adding optional buttons to picture modes in. the image for the conference. Chrome 92 is experimenting with support for microphone and camera switches, as well as the end call button, although support is not immediately stable.

6- Relaunch Google Reader:

Google is working on some sort of RSS reader for the new tab page. When you enable the web feed experience (chrome: // flags / # web-feed), you will have the option to follow websites that contain RSS feeds. They will appear in the next new tab on the new tab page next to the discovery feed. Things are still a little tricky at the moment, but the feature will be ready for prime time soon. (If Google doesn’t remove this completely, it can still happen with development experiences.)