Google has released Chrome 132 to the stable channel. Here are the key changes.
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What's new in Chrome 132
HTTPS-First
New heuristics have been introduced to automatically enable the "HTTPS-First" feature. It redirects HTTP requests to HTTPS for users who typically use HTTPS. If a user prefers not to use "HTTPS-First," they can disable this feature manually in the settings. When "HTTPS-First" is active, if a site doesn't support HTTPS, the request will fall back to HTTP. If HTTPS is unavailable, a warning will be shown before accessing the site via HTTP.
Google Lens improvements
Google Lens's "Search with Lens" functionality, available via the context menu, has been enhanced to provide a more comprehensive search experience.
Beyond its existing capabilities of searching via images and selected text, users can now use natural language questions related to the content of web pages and PDF documents. There is now an input area in the sidebar for that.
Furthermore, the the translation overlay now supports more languages. The translated text is shown on top of the original text in the image.
Password manager
The settings now include the ability to selectively download passwords and addresses previously saved on the local system to cloud storage linked to a Google account.
Sync
In desktop builds, instead of setting up synchronization between devices using a separate account, you can now use your Google account from Gmail and Google Docs.
For example, when logging into the Gmail website, you will now be prompted to log in with this account in Chrome to save and synchronize open tabs, settings, history, bookmarks, passwords, addresses, add-ons, themes, and PWA applications.
PWA link handling
Clicking on links associated with an installed Web application (PWA) now opens a regular site. The address bar then shows an indicator for switching to the PWA. Previously, opening such links immediately led to a transition to the web application, without the ability to work with the page as a regular site.
In addition to innovations and bug fixes, the new version closes 16 vulnerabilities. Five problems were assigned a high severity level. No critical problems were identified that could bypass all levels of browser protection and execute code in the system outside the sandbox environment. As part of the program for paying rewards for detecting vulnerabilities for the current release, Google has paid out 13 rewards totaling $37,000 (two rewards of $7,000 and $5,000, one reward of $3,000, three rewards of $2,000 and four rewards of $1,000).
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