Chrome 50 released

According to the full change log, 8748 changes were made to Chrome for version 50.0.2661.75. At least twenty of those changes are related to security, so this is an important update.

With this many changes, it seems reasonable to expect that one or two of them might be worth pointing out, but the release notes only say that there are a number of fixes and improvements, and to “Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 50.”

Rather than spend several days reading the details of all 8748 changes, I’ll wait for further announcements from Google. If I discover anything interesting, I’ll add it here.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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