Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com)

Google on Thursday pushed an update to its marquee Web browser Chrome, now at v64, which offers a handful of new features including an improved ad blocker. From a report: Most of the new features included with Chrome 64 are meant to improve the browser's support for the ever-changing web standards that drive the modern Internet. For example, Chrome 64 is choke full of support for new browser APIs, new CSS properties, new JavaScript (ECMAScript) features, and changes to Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. [...] Other big changes that shipped with Chrome 64 are on the browser's security side. For starters, Chrome 64 includes mitigations against the web-exploitable Spectre flaw. Further, Chrome 64 also comes with a bolstered popup blocker that can now block tab-under behavior, being much more efficient at blocking malvertising redirects.

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Choke full of support?

[Khyber]

Chock-full. Editors go back to school, please.

I don't need a popup blocker anymore

[OYAHHH]

I need something that blocks those overlays (whatever it is called) that ask you to sign up for a website.... etc.

Re:Chrome keeps improving. Firefox keeps stagnatin

[OYAHHH]

I gave up on it after the 5,000,000th time that needlessly altered the UI on their browser. Just this last release they decided to ignore the user's MS Windows preferences per window colors. Idiots are what they are. Apparently they can't understand I set up my desktop environment in a certain manner for a specific purpose.

Re:What's a good browser for 2018?

[DontBeAMoran]

There's also Safari, but you'd have to buy a Mac, iPad or iPhone to be able to use it.

If you think Safari is not a valid option because it requires macOS, then Edge is also not a valid option because it requires Windows.

Re:SPECTRE

[K. S. Kyosuke]

You laugh, but everyone knows that Chrome 64 > ZX SPECTRE.

Dear Editor -- please read your titles.

[SeaFox]

Google on Thursday pushed an update to its marquee Web browser Chrome, now at v64, which offers a handful of new features including an improved ad blocker.

Chrome has an ad blocker? I think given Google is also an advertising company, bundling something that blocks other companies' ads would raise some FTC eyebrows. How about a pop-up blocker, like it says in the title?

Close some tabs

[ArchieBunker]

You don't need to have 340 tabs open. That is the equivalent of having a house filled to the ceiling with junk mail on the off chance you might need to refer back to it one day.