The launch of the new version of the popular Google web browser «Chrome 104» was announced and in this new version a cookie validity limit has been introduced: All new or updated cookies will be automatically deleted after 400 days of existence, even if the expiration time set through the Expires and Max-Age attributes exceeds 400 days (for such Cookies, the lifetime will be reduced) to 400 days).
Cookies created before the introduction of the restriction will retain their useful life, even if it exceeds 400 days, but will be limited in the event of an update. The change reflects the new requirements outlined in the draft of the new specification.
Another change that stands out in the new version is to speed up page load, added new optimization to ensure that a connection to the destination host is established the moment a link is clicked, without waiting for the button to be released or the finger to be removed from the touch screen.
It is also highlighted that added settings to manage the "Topics and Interest Groups" API promoted by the Privacy Sandbox initiative to define user interest categories and use them instead of tracking cookies to highlight groups of users with similar interests without identifying individual users. In addition, information dialogs have been added that are displayed once, explaining to the user the essence of the technology and offering to activate its support in the settings.
Besides it Improvements have been made to the web developer tools. In the debugger, added the ability to restart the code from the beginning of the function, after hitting a breakpoint somewhere in the body of the function.
Added support for developing plugins for the Recorder panel, as well as support for displaying tags set in a web application via a call to the performance.measure() method in the performance analysis panel, as well as improved recommendations when autocompleting properties of JavaScript objects. Autocompleting CSS variables provides a preview of values that are not related to colors.
On the other hand, also it is noted that several new APIs have been added to the Origin Trials mode (experimental features that require separate activation). Origin Trial implies the ability to work with the specified API from applications downloaded from localhost or 127.0.0.1, or after registration and receiving a special token that is valid for a limited time for a specific site.
Of the other changes highlights of the new version of Chrome 104:
- Added Shared Element Transitions API to allow seamless transitions between different views of content in single page web applications.
- The Asynchronous Clipboard API adds the ability to define custom formats for clipboard data other than text, images, and markup.
- WebGL provides support for specifying a color space for the render buffer and transform when importing from a texture.
Removed support for OS X 10.11 and macOS 10.12 platforms. - Removed support for the U2F API (Cryptotoken), which was previously deprecated and disabled by default. The U2F API has been superseded by the Web Authentication API.
How to update or install Google Chrome in Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in being able to update to the new version of the browser on their systems, they can do so by following the instructions that we share below. The first thing you should do is check if the update is already available, for this you have to go to chrome: // settings / help and the notification that there is an update will appear.
In case it is not so you must close your browser and you are going to open a terminal and type:
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Newly, you open your browser and it should have already been updated or the update notification will appear.
In case you want to install the browser or choose to download the deb package to update, we must go to the web page of the browser to obtain the deb package and to be able to install it in our system with the help of the package manager or from the terminal. The link is this.
Once the package is obtained, we only have to install with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb