Chrome 76.0.3809.87 – 43 security fixes

On Tuesday, Google released another new version of Chrome: 76.0.3809.87. The announcement highlights sixteen vulnerabilities, discovered by security researchers not employed by Google, that are addressed in the new version. There are forty-three security fixes in all.

Google has chosen not to highlight any other changes in Chrome 76.0.3809.87, so if you want to know whether anything important changed, your only option is to read the thirteen thousand, five hundred and forty-three entries in the full change log. Good luck with that.

Chrome, uh, finds a way to keep itself updated, and fighting against that is a never-ending and ultimately pointless exercise. What you can do is check your version and thereby trigger an immediate update, by navigating Chrome’s ‘three vertical dots’ menu (at the top right) to Help > About Google Chrome. That way you don’t have to wait for Chrome to update itself, which happens “over the coming days/weeks” according to Google.

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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