Google has been focusing on Chrome security for a long time, its successful web browser which, as you already know, has been around for many years and is by far the most used in the world on both desktop and mobile devices. Its success story is well known, and while it’s also known to have its ups and downs, there’s no doubt that there’s a lot of (and often very good) work behind it.

A very important element in this commitment to protect users we find it in the secure protection system, a function that checks the URLs of the websites we want to visit and crosses them against a list that is updated fairly frequently (once or twice an hour). So if it detects that we are talking about a dangerous website, it will prevent us from visiting it and will instead show us a message informing us of this circumstance.

Very recently, with the release of Google Chrome version 122, improvements were made to the performance of the Safe Browsing feature, thereby reducing the time the browser spends performing checks the sites we visit. This undoubtedly marked an improvement in one of the most improved points of this security system, so that its load-time footprint is practically imperceptible.

We now know that this tweak was part of a much broader plan and that it was done, among other things, to mitigate the impact that the news that the company announced today could have. So as we can read on the official Google blog, Google Chrome’s Safe Browsing feature now checks the security of websites we’re about to visit with lists updated in real time. Thus, the browser will no longer download lists of dangerous sites, avoiding the risk window that appears between the time a malicious website is published until it is identified, added to the list, and downloaded to the browser.

In Google’s publication about this news, the company reveals a very interesting fact, which is this The average lifespan of a malicious website is less than 10 minutes., which is a time margin that is insufficient for safe browsing based on the method used so far to allow multiple threats to escape. So according to the tests they performed, they are confident that the system will be able to detect up to 25% more phishing attempts.

This change in the improved browsing feature of Google Chromee is now available in the latest version of the browser on desktop and iOSand will soon be available for Android as well. However, and although it remains optional, the technology company once again recommends its users to activate the enhanced security mode, which uses additional techniques to prevent access to potentially dangerous websites.