{"id":415596,"date":"2021-09-24T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=415596"},"modified":"2021-09-24T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:53:33","slug":"google-fixes-19-security-flaws-with-chrome-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/415596-google-fixes-19-security-flaws-with-chrome-94.html","title":{"rendered":"Google fixes 19 security flaws with Chrome 94"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is rolling out an update for its Chrome web browser that addresses 19 different security issues, the company announced in a blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Chrome 94, the first release of Google’s new four-week update cycle, also introduces new features such as HTTPS-First mode and the sharing hub, according to a 9to5Google report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The HTTPS-First mode will show a warning when loading a website that doesn’t support HTTPS \u2014 a more secure form of HTTP \u2014 safeguarding the privacy of Chrome users on public Wi-Fi networks.<\/p>\n

Chrome’s sharing hub \u2014 a new feature on desktop clients \u2014 allows users to quickly copy links, access QR codes, and share to third-party websites, while those signed in to the client can also send to their own devices.<\/p>\n

Google said the update implements 32 bug fixes and other improvements on desktop clients.<\/p>\n

The iOS version of Chrome 94 adds the ability to download and open .mobileconfig files, which can configure iPhones and iPads to work with specific enterprise systems.<\/p>\n

The Chrome 94 update also added an updated onboarding process and a new edit mode to manage tabs on iOS clients.<\/p>\n

Android tablets also gain new features with Chrome 94, such as hosting desktop websites, freezing groups of dormant tabs, and automatically starting progressive web apps.<\/p>\n

Google said the update would roll out over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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Now Read: Bing could replace Google as Firefox’s default search engine<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chrome 94 introduces new fixes and features on Android, macOS, iOS, and Windows operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":414428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[397,72620,1137,20789,691,39,1125,36626,807],"class_list":["post-415596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-android","tag-chrome-94","tag-google-chrome","tag-hypertext-transfer-protocol-secure-https","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-macos","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415596"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415726,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415596\/revisions\/415726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}