What’s in the latest Chrome update? Password inspections, less annoying site permission requests
Google earlier this week released Chrome 88, adding capabilities to the browser’s password manager; streamlining permission requests from sites that asked, say, to switch on the microphone; and for enterprises, ending support for an add-on that called up Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to render old intranet websites and legacy apps.
The Mountain View, Calif. search giant also paid out more than $81,000 in bounties to security researchers who reported some of the 36 vulnerabilities addressed in Chrome 88. One of the bugs was marked “Critical,” Google’s top-most threat level (and resulted in a $30,000 reward to its finder, researcher Rory McNamara). Nine others were tagged as “High,” the second-most-serious ranking. A number of the bounties — 10, including three of those labeled “High” — had not yet been assigned a dollar amount, so Google’s final payout will certainly be higher than the acknowledged total.