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Today, we’re introducing another way for Chrome on Android users in India, along with more than 100 countries including Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil, to surf the web with Chrome on Android devices — even without a constant internet connection. When you’re connected to free, unmetered WiFi, Chrome will automatically download relevant articles, based on what content is most popular in your location. If you’re signed into Chrome, you’ll also get articles that are relevant to you, based on your browsing history. This downloaded content is then available whenever you want to access it, even if you don’t have a connection.

Official Google India Blog: Chrome on Android now offlines content on WiFi

 

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To better mitigate these (spectre) attacks, we're excited to announce that Chrome 67 has enabled a security feature called Site Isolation on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS.

Site Isolation does cause Chrome to create more renderer processes, which comes with performance tradeoffs: on the plus side, each renderer process is smaller, shorter-lived, and has less contention internally, but there is about a 10-13% total memory overhead in real workloads due to the larger number of processes.

In Chrome 67, Site Isolation has been enabled for 99% of users on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. (Given the large scope of this change, we are keeping a 1% holdback for now to monitor and improve performance.)

Google Online Security Blog: Mitigating Spectre with Site Isolation in Chrome

 

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Google Chrome version 68.0.3440.75 now available for download

 

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Chrome browser update:

The stable channel has been updated to 68.0.3440.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux

 

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Chrome browser update:

The stable channel has been updated to 68.0.3440.106 for Windows, Mac, and Linux

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1032311603843223552

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Chrome on Android to disable JavaScript automatically on 2G connections

Google has decided to turn this feature on by default in Chrome for Android. This will disable JavaScript plugins and scripts automatically on 2G connections and slower.

This is huge news for developing countries where mobile data packets may cost a lot and are not be affordable to all. Enabling NoScript by default will make sure that users don’t burn through their data without knowledge. The feature will probably be available in the Chrome 69, which will also come with the new Material Design refresh.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1035920244454432768

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Google Chrome version 69.0.3497.81 now available for download

New in Chrome 69 | Web | Google Developers

 

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Chrome for Android 69 (69.0.3497.76) has been released and will be available on Google Play over the course of the next few weeks.