{"id":256531,"date":"2018-04-18T08:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=256531"},"modified":"2018-04-18T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:25:35","slug":"chrome-66-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/256531-chrome-66-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome 66 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chromereleases.googleblog.com\/2018\/04\/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a><\/strong> Chrome 66, introducing 62 security fixes, and feature improvements.<\/p>\n<p>While Chrome had a feature that lets you mute audio on a site-by-site basis, version 66 expands on this by allowing you to customise when media may autoplay, based on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content is muted or does not feature audio.<\/li>\n<li>You have previously tapped or clicked on the site during the browsing session.<\/li>\n<li>On mobile &#8211; whether you have has added the site to a home screen.<\/li>\n<li>On desktop &#8211;\u00a0 if you have frequently played media on the site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest version of Chrome also adds the ability to export passwords in plain text to a CSV file.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Spectre<\/h3>\n<p>Google announced it will conduct a &#8220;small percentage trial&#8221; with Chrome 66 for a feature called Site Isolation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Site Isolation improves Chrome&#8217;s security and helps mitigate the risks posed by Spectre,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>To diagnose whether an issue is caused by Site Isolation, use chrome:\/\/flags#site-isolation-trial-opt-out.<\/p>\n<p>The company has requested users to report any issues specific to the Site Isolation trial to help fix it before the feature is launched broadly.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome 66 will also not trust website certificates issued by Symantec&#8217;s legacy public key infrastructure before 1 June 2016.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/255445-chrome-and-firefox-to-support-password-free-logins.html\">Chrome and Firefox to support password-free logins<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released Chrome 66, introducing 62 security fixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,167],"class_list":["post-256531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256551,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256531\/revisions\/256551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}