Google released Chrome 87 yesterday, November 17, 2020, in the Stable desktop versions and includes many performance enhancements, security fixes, and new features.
With Chrome 87 in the stable versions, Chrome 88 is the new Beta and Chrome 89 will be the Canary version.
Performance improvements for tabs in the background
With the release of Chrome 87, Google added some optimization to increase the performance in computer σας κατά τη χρήση του προγράμματος περιήγησης.
After analysis of resources used by background tabs, Google found that JavaScript timers use > 40% of resources. With this release, Google increases performance by allowing JavaScript timers to “wake up” and run a function every minute.
In addition to speeding up the JavaScript timer, Chrome 87 includes block monitoring to determine which tabs are being used, so that your browser allocates resources only to those you use.
Google says this improvement has made Chrome "up to 25% faster to boot and 7% faster to load pages, while using less memory."
Google releases cache/cache feature on Google Chrome for Android users.
This feature will save a complete snapshot of the webpage, including JavaScript, to the cache so you can get back to exactly where you left off.
FTP support is disabled by defaultchoice
In November 2018, we reported that Google planned to remove FTP support from the browser, as only 0,1 -2% of their users visited an FTP site for seven days.
With the release of Chrome 80, Google started disabling the feature for its 1% bases of its users as a trial, but due to the pandemic, it has reactivated it so that users are not blocked from medical information.
With today's version of Chrome 87, Google has disabled FTP support by default, and trying to visit an ftp: // site will do nothing in the browser.
Users who still need FTP support can enable it using chrome: // flags / # enable-ftp , but it should be noted that from Chrome 88, all FTP is removed.
Security vulnerabilities have been fixed
Chrome 87 includes an update to the Slipstream attack discovered by security researcher Samy Kamkar, which allows intruders to bypass NAT and access any TCP / UDP port on the victim computer.
Mozilla Firefox also plans to fix this vulnerability in a future version of the browser.
The other Chrome 87 security fixes have not yet been released.
