What's in the latest Chrome update? Faster phishing site warnings, more Actions

Google has launched Chrome 92, an update that improves the browser's speed during anti-phishing computations, broadens the scope of its site isolation technologies, and introduces several new "Chrome Actions" to its arsenal.

In addition, the California-based search giant handed out more than $133,000 in rewards to people who reported some of the 35 vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 92, which was released last week. At least nine of the vulnerabilities were classified as "High," Google's second-highest threat category. Because a number of the bounties, including four designated "High," were yet to be allocated a monetary value, Google's ultimate payout will very probably exceed the announced sum.

Because Chrome updates in the background, most users will be able to complete a refresh simply by relaunching the browser. To manually update, go to the Help menu and pick "About Google Chrome" from the three-dot symbol in the top right; the resulting tab reveals that the browser has been updated or displays the download process before displaying a Relaunch button. Chrome users who are new to the browser may get the latest version 92 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Android and iOS browsers are available in the Google Play and App Store marketplaces, respectively.

Google is currently updating Chrome every six weeks, but May 26 has been released. However, Google stated it will speed up Chrome's release schedule so the period fell to four weeks by October.

Actions! More of them

Otherwise, with Chrome 91, Google expanded site isolation technology to include extensions, the Chrome add-ons have been more popular. — long a fundamental security component for your browser.

"We'll start expanding this capacity from Chrome 92 to allow extensions to stop sharing processes," Charlie Reis and Alex Moshchuk, two Chrome security team members, published a July 20 article on the Google Security Blog. "This offers an additional defense, with no existing extendable capabilities, against malicious extensions."

Additional Chrome actions have also been added by Google to version 92, natural language words that offer shortcuts to browser settings or capabilities when typified in the address bar. Introduced in November, additional entries, including 'Security Check,' 'Handle Security' and 'Manage Sync, have now been included in the list of actions accessible.

The new actions will not be instantly accessible to everybody, but like so much in Chrome, it will gradually be rolling out to the user base. They were not available in Chrome editions of Computerworld, for instance.

Chrome's next upgrade will be delivered by Google on Aug, Chrome 93. (or six weeks after v. 92). Chrome's initial release is scheduled for Oct, 95, at a four-week interval. 19.