Google released it Chrome 87 yesterday, November 17, 2020, in the Stable desktop versions and includes many performance improvements, security fixes and new features.
With Chrome 87 in the stable builds, Chrome 88 is the new one version Beta and Chrome 89 will be the Canary version.
Performance improvements for tabs in the background
With the release of Chrome 87, Google has added some optimization to increase the performance of your computer while using the browser.
After analyzing the resources used by the background tabs, Google found that JavaScript timers use> 40% of the resources. With this release, Google is increasing 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 tracking to determine which tabs are in use so that the browser allocates theconditions only the ones 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 in Google Chrome for Android users.
This function will store a complete snapshot of the web page, including JavaScript memory, in the hidden memory, so you can pick up right where you left off.
FTP support was disabled by default
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 began disabling the feature for 1% of its user base as a test, but due to the pandemic, it re-enabled it so that users are not excluded 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.
Ο Mozilla Firefox also plans to patch this vulnerability in a future version of the browser.
The other Chrome 87 security fixes have not yet been released.