Google Chrome has occurred as quickly as possible for a serious reason

Google Chrome has occurred as quickly as possible for a serious reason

Newly discovered Google Chrome security flaw requires immediate update

Google regularly introduces a new version of Chrome approximately every ten weeks, but sometimes flaws are discovered that require something faster. Today is one of those days, according to Hacker News, who discovered a catastrophic update on the Google Chrome Releases blog, suggesting that Chrome users should update their browser as soon as possible.

For this specific security patch, the update indicates that "access to error details and links may be restricted until the majority of users are updated to fix them. We will also keep the restrictions in case the error exists in a third-party library that other projects similarly rely on but have not yet fixed. "These types of precautions are usually confined to very serious and therefore urgent problems.

Google also stated that this security flaw is actively using "in the wild", a tone engineer for "the general public," rather than laboratory testing conditions where the risks can remain theoretical. But as far as we can say, the error is limited to Windows and Mac versions of Chrome. IOS and Android versions are not affected.

To manually check for an update available for Mac and Windows versions, click the three-dot menu at the top right, then Help (near the bottom of the pop-up menu), and then About Google Chrome. This will open a new window where the browser automatically starts searching for the update, which will take just a few seconds.

If you receive an update from Chrome, you'll need to close and reopen all application windows for the change to take effect. After updating, a About Google Chrome page displays a button you can click to have the browser do this automatically. On Windows, at least, the version you should be looking for is 72.0.3626.121.

Of course, the other alternative is to use a different browser right now, like Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, or Opera. All four contain additional catalogs for things like password managers and dark modes.

Note: If you have a lot of open tabs that you don't want to track when you restart Chrome, the browser setting lets you reopen those tabs when you restart. Click this 3-dot button again, then Settings, and then scroll down to the "Startup" section and click the radio button next to "Continue where you left off." The change is effective immediately.