Committed to the security of your solutions, Google changed the frequency of updates for its browser most used by the public. Now, the Stable version will be updated weekly. Before, updates were implemented by the company's developers once every four weeks, generating biweekly security reports.
The objective of this measure is to increase user security against malicious activities and online scams., such as data leakage. Like this, according to The Verve, the modification will be valid from Chrome 116. Despite this change, Google states that the acceleration measure will not change the way systems are used or updated.
What will change?
In practice, the modification will reduce the time for hackers and other malicious Internet users to take advantage and exploit the vulnerabilities associated with the system during the update period. In the end, This new periodicity reduces the time gap between one update and another, what can happen 77 until 15 dias.
This prevents criminals from accessing updates that the general population does not yet have access to.. For users of Google systems, what will change is that, now, You will need to restart your computers and devices more often to keep your security up to date.
Various Google Chrome versions
The company Google offers different types of Google Chrome in order to serve the most varied types of users. Nonetheless, the Stable version is the most stable, generating time for developers to fix bugs before releasing updates to users.
The most advanced version, although, It's Dev. Updates to this model are made as soon as they are released. Although, This can cause a series of bugs and errors, since these types of users are the first to receive updates, held approximately twice a week.
