Google Chrome Leads the global browser market with slightly more than 64 percent penetration; Based on recently published StatCounter data.

Is behind Chrome Safari, Apple Browser has 19.03 percent, up from 8.72 percent in April 2012.

The situation is very different from what it was ten years ago when Internet Explorer was in first place with only 30 percent of users.

What was the main browser worldwide in April 2012, Internet Explorer (30.8%) ceased to exist. He is currently being replaced by Edge, which has a market share of 4.05% and is in third place.

Fourth place is occupied by Firefox, which ten years ago had a penetration of 22.5 percent and now stands at 3.4 percent.

Fifth and sixth places are occupied by Samsung Internet and Opera, respectively 2.82% and 2.22%.

These data show a significant increase in Chrome, Google’s browser, which in ten years moved from second place to 28.24 percent of the global market, to leader with 64.5 percent.

How to take care of Google Chrome privacy

Chrome has just released a Privacy Guide, Help people review existing privacy settings for their browsing. The goal is for users to understand how they work and what benefits they have in order to decide if they want to activate them.

This section reports, for example, that in Safe Browsing, Chrome offers standard protection and enhanced protection, detailing the difference between each option.

It also allows you to choose when to block third-party cookies, incognito or always, so that websites can see user browsing activity only on their own websites and not on other pages visited.

In the Privacy Sandbox area, Chrome is developing new technologies that protect users from website tracking while maintaining an open network.

It should be noted that Privacy Sandbox tests are still in development and are only available in certain regions.

How to update Chrome

One of the key factors in keeping your browser safe is keeping it up to date. Decho, company a few weeks ago Released an update Urgent for ChromeAfter discovering a new vulnerability in the system. This is the second failure, with its corresponding decision coming out in just one week.

On March 25, Google released an update after fixing a problem with a version of Chrome that could be used by hackers, the company warned at the time. The latest emergency update comes in version 100.0.4896.75.

To ensure that you have the latest version of the system with its appropriate security patches, you need to perform the following steps:

Click the three dots that appear on the top edge of Chrome, Just below the profile picture. This will enter the settings menu.

Then click on the option that says Help and then Chrome info and there you will see the installed version.

Note that it is necessary to restart the browser after installing the update To activate protection. Otherwise, the system will continue to be vulnerable to possible attacks that exploit the aforementioned vulnerability.

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