Chrome 91 includes 32 security fixes — why you need to patch now

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Chrome 91 includes 32 security fixes — why you lot need to patch now

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Google Chrome version 91, specifically 91.0.4472.77, has been released and it contains a couple of useful new features as well as fixing 32 security holes. You'll want to update equally soon as possible.

The new version was pushed out late yesterday (May 25). Then far, Chrome'southward siblings Dauntless, Border, Opera and Vivaldi have not incorporated the update, merely at least a couple likely will past the finish of the day today.

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How to update Chrome

To update Chrome on Windows or Mac, it's commonly plenty to simply close the browser and relaunch it. To brand sure, you can click the three vertical dots at the top right corner of the browser window, and then scroll down, highlight Help and click on "About Google Chrome" in the fly-out menu that appears.

A new tab will open that will either tell you that your build of Chrome is upwardly-to-date or that it is downloading the new version, after which you lot have to relaunch the browser.

Linux users may have to look until their distribution pushes out Chrome updates along with the residuum of the regular software updates.

The Android,  iOS and Chrome Os versions of Chrome get dissever sets of patches and will be updated on their ain cycles. Chrome 91 for Android was also released yesterday and should be appearing in Google Play soon. The iOS version of Chrome 91 is in beta and can exist downloaded from the App Store for users who've enabled beta releases.

Nearly 3 dozen security fixes

Of the flaws fixed with this version of Chrome, at least viii are rated as "high" severity on the official Chrome blog. This implies that these flaws could probably be exploited by a malicious website or other internet-based attack.

None of the flaws are flagged as "zero-day" issues — i.e., that an attacker had exploited the flaws before Google had a chance to prepare them. That's a welcome respite from a pour of recent zero-days that saw Google rushing out patches to Chrome iv times over the course of two weeks in April.

New features: Gravity sensor, copy-and-paste files

Most of the other changes to Chrome are subtle and won't be noticeable to nearly users. A couple that might exist include a new gravity sensor for laptops that have the appropriate hardware and the power to copy and paste files from their operating system's file director directly into a Gmail message.

Hither'southward a rundown of the most recent Chrome desktop updates.

• May 25: 91.0.4472.77
• May x: xc.0.4430.212
• April 26: 90.0.4430.93
• April twenty: ninety.0.4430.85
• Apr xiv: xc.0.4430.72
• April thirteen: 89.0.4389.128
• March 30: 89.0.4389.114
• March 12: 89.0.4389.90
• March 5: 89.0.4389.82
• March 2: 89.0.4389.72

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Paul Wagenseil is a senior editor at Tom's Guide focused on security and privacy. He has also been a dishwasher, fry melt, long-haul driver, code monkey and video editor. He'south been rooting effectually in the information-security space for more than than 15 years at FoxNews.com, SecurityNewsDaily, TechNewsDaily and Tom'south Guide, has presented talks at the ShmooCon, DerbyCon and BSides Las Vegas hacker conferences, shown up in random TV news spots and fifty-fifty moderated a panel discussion at the CEDIA home-technology briefing. You can follow his rants on Twitter at @snd_wagenseil.

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