Google Chrome This year in September 2023, he will be fifteen years old. The web browser of the Mountain View giant, which pioneered the Chromium technology, has been the most used application in its segment for many years. This position, although it may not seem like it today, is very meritocratic, especially since its underlying technology was a pioneer when it came to serious use of multi-core processors and support for new features approved for HTML5.

Since the number fifteen is quite round, Google is preparing things to commemorate this anniversary. To start, Chrome will be redesigned in the coming weeks to match the lines created through the Material You design languageto which updated icons are added with a focus on readability and the creation of new color palettes that better complement the tabs and toolbar.

The company explains that the new themes and colors it is introducing in Google Chrome can help users distinguish between profiles such as personal and professional. In addition, integration with operating systems has been improved so that presets can be easily adapted to operating system configurations, with a special mention of light and dark themes that serve many environments.

Implementation Material You will also arrive at the Chrome Web Store, extension store, improve its user experience and give it a more modern aesthetic treatment adapted to the current times. On the other hand, new categories such as artificial intelligence and highlights from editors will be added and personalized recommendations will be improved. The curious have a preview that can be visited now.

Google Chrome with Material You.

Since Google is very security conscious (privacy is another matter), it has decided expand the possibilities of security checks (Security check) for expansion, so Chrome can help identify extensions in the store that haven’t been published recently, violate our policies, or are potentially harmful. And with third-party tools like CRXcavator and Spin.AI Risk Assessment, the Mountain View giant also helps companies assess the risks of extensions before they roll out widely. Available in Chrome’s cloud management, the ratings help security teams make more informed decisions.

Chrome recently gained features that allow faster access to information and search tools while browsing. For example, the “Search this page with Google” option in the main menu will open a sidebar with access to the Google search engine to perform related searches.

Finally, we can mention Google’s safe browsing implemented in Chrome, which protects by displaying a warning that occupies the entire content of the tab when the user visits potentially dangerous pages or pages containing potentially dangerous files. This feature has been updated to improve the security provided.

Google explains that Safe Browsing previously worked by comparing each website to a locally stored list that was updated every forty to sixty minutes with the most known malicious sites. However, domains phishing They are increasingly sophisticated and 60% of them are active for less than ten minutes, so blocking them has become a much more difficult task.

Chrome Web Store preview with Material You.

To improve the protection provided by Safe Browsing, Google now compares websites it knows is malicious in real time without sharing your browsing history with the company.. This has reduced the time between threat identification and prevention, and the Mountain View giant expects to offer 25% better protection against malware and security threats. phishing. Suspicious users can enable enhanced protection through their Google Account settings.

And this is the battery of measures that Google is preparing to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Chrome, a web browser that, like it or not, has contributed its positive things and everything indicates that it will continue to dominate with an iron fist. come.