Η Google today released Chrome 74 for all users (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS and Android). While each new edition comes with new features and bug fixes, the main new addition in today's update is, Dark Mode support for Windows.
Mac users already know they enjoyed Chrome's Dark Mode from last month, and the release of Chrome 73.
For users who want to enable the new Dark Mode feature, the bad news is that it's not there yet choice in the Chrome settings section to do so.
Just as for Mac users, if Windows users want to turn on the new Chrome feature, they will have to change the operating system theme and Google Chrome will automatically change to Dark Mode along with the operating system.
This means that users cannot use Chrome Dark Mode regardless of the OS theme, which can be quite annoying as most users prefer to controln the appearance of each application.
Security Improvements
The rest of the news characteristics added in Chrome 74 are almost all about web-dev. As of this release, Google stops downloading files from iframes, a common method used to distribute malware through ads (malvertising).
Another security mechanism added by Google to the new version of Chrome is blocking the ability of a site to open a new tab when the current page is closed.
This technique has been tamed in recent years by advertisers and technical fraud scams. So Google thought it good to take drastic action.
From Chrome 74 for Android comes a new data-saving mechanism, which Google calls "Lite mode".
There are no details on how Lite mode works, but Google promised to publish a whitepaper with more information in the near future.
