Google has released the Chrome 63 web browser to the stable channel for all supported operating systems including GNU/ Linux, macOS , and Microsoft Windows.
The Beta version was released at the end of October, promising many significant changes for developers such as a new Device Memory API, async generators, dynamic modules, as well as various UI changes. We should note that it brought significant improvements to the Blink engine and several bug fixes.
The improvements to Blink's search engines implemented in Chrome 63 improve areas such as DOM, CSS, HTML, MediaStream, JavaScript, connections, fonts, network, storage, and sensors. The updated version also redefines the chrome://flags page and modifies emerging permissions for a better Google Chrome experience.
Chrome 63 also offers support for the “display: minimal-ui” feature, allowing web developers to create UI for users who use Chrome Custom Tabs. You also have at your disposal a new shortcut that makes it easier for users to access the Site Certificate of the pages.
With the new release of Chrome 63, Google includes 37 security fixes for WebAssembly, usage in PDFium and libXML, URL Spoof in Omnibox, a problem with the SPAKE implementation in BoringSSL, a URL address leak in Blink, as well as out-of-frame letters in Skia and QUIC.
Informatively, Google released today Chrome 63 for Android web browser on the Google Play Store, adding a new pop-up site upgrade permissions, a redesigned chrome://flags page, brand‑new introduction for Chrome Home, as well as the security fixes that were applied to the desktop version.
