Google Chrome is a closed source web browser developed by Google, although derived from an open source project called "Chromium".
Announced the launch of the new version of the popular web browser Google Chrome 109, version in which in addition to the innovations and the correction of errors, 17 vulnerabilities have been fixed in the new version.
No critical issues have been identified that allow bypassing all levels of browser protection and executing code on the system outside of the sandbox.
As part of the cash reward payment program for the discovery of vulnerabilities for the current version, Google paid 14 prizes in the amount of 39 thousand US dollars.
Main novelties of Chrome 109
In this new version that is presented in Chrome 109 we can find that implemented a permissions confirmation flag design in the address bar, which is displayed instead of the lock icon for 4 seconds after the user confirms or declines the new permissions requested by the site. The prompt allows you to ensure that the correct choice has been made and, if necessary, proceed to edit the permissions.
Another change that we can find is that an icon with a camera has been added to the search bar on the page displayed when opening a new tab to search by image using the service Google Lens (The searchable image can be specified as a URL or as a local file.)
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that MathML Core markup language support has been returned (Mathematical Markup Language) for defining mathematical formulas embedded in HTML and SVG documents (MathML was removed from the Blink engine in 2013).
CSS properties math-style, math-depth and math-shift are provided to customize the style specific to MathML, as well as the "math" value for the "display" properties, the math-auto value for the text-transform property, and the "math" name for the "font-family" property.
A new cross-platform update installation engine has been proposed, which has improved performance and reliability. When a Cox DNS provider-based resolver is used on the user's system, the "DNS over HTTPS" (DoH, DNS over HTTPS) mode is automatically enabled.
The page "chrome://settings/language» offers advanced translation settings that allow you to select the current target language, the languages that do not need to be translated and the languages that always need to be translated.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- Improvements have been made to the web developer tools.
- Added hints to the Styles panel for inactive CSS properties inline height/width, flex, and grid.
- The Performance panel provides results of regular function names defined through the source map.
- Added “About This Page” page with information about the page, fonts used, and site theme.
Added output of detailed warnings about downloading dangerous content. - Removed support for the non-standard Event.path API and should use the Event.composedPath() method instead.
- Fixed a slow scrolling issue on Linux when using Wayland.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about it, you can consult the details in the following link.
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
You open your browser again and it must 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