Browse the web both regularly or in private mode, open as many as tabs as you want, watch videos from YouTube and other websites without installing Adobe's Flash player, bookmark your favorite websites and save login credentials for various websites.
Still considered the world’s favorite browser, Google Chrome does not cease to amaze its millions of users with every new version while attracting new ones at the same time. Being a Google product, Chrome syncs perfectly with all your Google accounts and products, allowing you to access all your data virtually from anywhere. Its privacy and accessibility features are also among the best available out there.
Taking into account that both Opera and the new Microsoft Edge are both based on Google’s Chromium technology, it is safe to say that it has proven to be the fastest and most reliable Web browsing technology you can use. The devil is, as usual, in the detail. The technology behind them may be exactly the same, but both in terms of browser design and resource management, there are big differences among all Chromium-based browsers.
For obvious reasons, Chrome beats all of them when it comes to Google integration, and this platitude is of a great importance when we ask ourselves this question – who is not connected to Google in one way or another? Therefore, having your browser synchronized with your e-mail account and all your cloud-based data in a simple, transparent, and straightforward way is of great relevance to many users. Hence its growing popularity.
The new version of Google Chrome hasn’t changed significantly neither visually nor functionally when compared to previous ones. And that is both good and bad. Good because regular Chrome users will be glad to find the privacy and security features they all know and love, as well as the Incognito browsing mode, the myriad of extensions available and, of course, the Google search engine in all its glory. And bad because this browser still has the dubious honor of being (also) the leader among all resource-hungry browsers. And this is not a Chromium-related issue, as other Chromium-based browsers display a clearly better resource management policy.
Google Chrome hasn’t stopped topping the charts of the “Best Browser of the Year” lists during the last few years, but other contenders are getting closer, especially in terms of memory management. If ever this browser manages to sort out this issue, no other contender will dare to dispute its domination.
v93.0 [Jun 6, 2021]
This update includes 27 security fixes that were contributed by external researchers:
- [$20000][1233975] High CVE-2021-30606: Use after free in Blink. Reported by Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) and koocola (@alo_cook) of 360 Alpha Lab on 2021-07-28.
- [$10000][1235949] High CVE-2021-30607: Use after free in Permissions. Reported by Weipeng Jiang (@Krace) from Codesafe Team of Legendsec at Qi'anxin Group on 2021-08-03.
- [$7500][1219870] High CVE-2021-30608: Use after free in Web Share. Reported by Huyna at Viettel Cyber Security on 2021-06-15.
- [$5000][1239595] High CVE-2021-30609: Use after free in Sign-In. Reported by raven (@raid_akame) on 2021-08-13.
- [$N/A][1200440] High CVE-2021-30610: Use after free in Extensions API. Reported by Igor Bukanov from Vivaldi on 2021-04-19.
- [$20000][1233942] Medium CVE-2021-30611: Use after free in WebRTC. Reported by Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) and koocola (@alo_cook) of 360 Alpha Lab on 2021-07-28.
- [$20000][1234284] Medium CVE-2021-30612: Use after free in WebRTC. Reported by Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) and koocola (@alo_cook) of 360 Alpha Lab on 2021-07-29.
- [$15000][1209622] Medium CVE-2021-30613: Use after free in Base internals. Reported by Yangkang (@dnpushme) of 360 ATA on 2021-05-16.
- [$10000][1207315] Medium CVE-2021-30614: Heap buffer overflow in TabStrip. Reported by Huinian Yang (@vmth6) of Amber Security Lab, OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd. on 2021-05-10.
- [$5000][1208614] Medium CVE-2021-30615: Cross-origin data leak in Navigation. Reported by NDevTK on 2021-05-12.
- [$5000][1231432] Medium CVE-2021-30616: Use after free in Media. Reported by Anonymous on 2021-07-21.
- [$3000][1226909] Medium CVE-2021-30617: Policy bypass in Blink. Reported by NDevTK on 2021-07-07.
- [$3000][1232279] Medium CVE-2021-30618: Inappropriate implementation in DevTools. Reported by @DanAmodio and @mattaustin from Contrast Security on 2021-07-23.
- [$3000][1235222] Medium CVE-2021-30619: UI Spoofing in Autofill. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2021-08-02.
- [$NA][1063518] Medium CVE-2021-30620: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink. Reported by Jun Kokatsu, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on 2020-03-20.
- [$NA][1204722] Medium CVE-2021-30621: UI Spoofing in Autofill. Reported by Abdulrahman Alqabandi, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on 2021-04-30.
- [$NA][1224419] Medium CVE-2021-30622: Use after free in WebApp Installs. Reported by Jun Kokatsu, Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research on 2021-06-28.
- [$10000][1223667] Low CVE-2021-30623: Use after free in Bookmarks. Reported by Leecraso and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab on 2021-06-25.
- [$TBD][1230513] Low CVE-2021-30624: Use after free in Autofill. Reported by Wei Yuan of MoyunSec VLab on 2021-07-19.
