Chrome 86 Brings Password Protections For Android and iOS, VP9 For MacOS Big Sur

An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 86 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 86 brings password protections for Android and iOS, VP9 for macOS Big Sur, autoupgrades for insecure forms, focus indicator improvements, and a slew of developer features. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome.

With over 1 billion users, Chrome is both a browser and a major platform that web developers must consider. In fact, with Chrome's regular additions and changes, developers have to stay on top of everything available -- as well as what has been deprecated or removed. Chrome 86, for example, deprecates support for FTP URLs, starting with 1% of users and ramping up to 100% by Chrome 88.

Not really...

[QuietLagoon]

}}} -- Chrome is both a browser and a major platform that web developers must consider. In fact, with Chrome's regular additions and changes, developers have to stay on top of everything available -- {{{ .... Such a statement just shows much much Google is trying to steal and take control of the web. The developers of websites provide what the visitors to those websites want, not what google wants them to provide.

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[TheLazyEngineer]

Such a statement just shows much much Google is trying to steal and take control of the web.

Maybe true, but that does not mean that web developers can ignore that chrome is a major platform that web developers must consider. Because regardless of what one may wish, it is also true that Chrome has over a billion users.

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[QuietLagoon]

regardless of what one may wish
I don't wish anything one way or the other. I just see google trying to take control of the web via their browser, similar to what Microsoft tried to do back in the day using Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, google seems to be a lot better at it.
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chrome is a major platform that web developers must consider.

Of course the web developers should consider it. But they should not let google lead their efforts around by the nose. The web developers need to remain focus

Re: Not really...

[BAReFO0t]

Well, the problem are exactly web developers who think they NEED to add Google's newest shit.

Because everything but Firefox died because of not being able to keep up. And from the looks of it, Mozilla is about to.

Frankly, as soon as a x86 emulator with full GUI, 3D, audio, networking, storage and input worked, and Linux and Windows ran, I was done.
All my future projects will exclusively be normal freaking programs, compiled to WebAssembly and a minimal GL + SDL + some other bits platform.
Hell, the GUI will

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[QuietLagoon]

Well, what if the google search engine downgrades sites that do not incorporate the newest that google ~encourages~ web site developers to use in support of chrome?

Re: Not really...

[BAReFO0t]

You talk like HTML 1.0 or something suddenly will stop working.

I mean, knowing Google, it might. But come on. Nobody NEEDS to use Shape Detection API, WebSockets, WebGPU, or WebKitchenSink25957284. (I found the first one by searching for "dumbest new browser API.)

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[fahrbot-bot]

WebKitchenSink25957284

AKA: Cloud-based, subscription model Emacs in the browser - yikes! :-)

[ Said as someone who has regularly used Emacs since the mid 80s. ]

Google's Chrome is the new IE

[dicobalt]

There are better Chromium choices at this point, not to mention Firefox. Google has officially entered a "sitting on their laurels" era.

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[Merk42]

I'd definitely say Safari is the new IE

I challenge the "1 billion users" statement.

[BAReFO0t]

1. Given the practical long-term results, as in it mainly being a platform to get people to see ads, to get advertiser money, because the advertisers could milk those people, it is more approriate to call them usees.
2. If they did not make a choice to use it, let alone an informed one, then one cannot boast about them using it. Only about the one person that made them use it, if it was not Google itself. That person is the only one actually making use of being an individual and a person.

I wonder: Is there a

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[ApproachingLinux]

It's like the 3 billion devices that run Java

I protect my passwords

[93 Escort Wagon]

... by not saving them using any browser’s built-in password management.

Bitwarden FTW!

NOPE

[bsdetector101]

Still won't use Chrome !!