List the new version of Chrome 80 with notification blocking and more

The launch of the new version of Google Chrome 80 has just been presented, which comes with fixes for some security issues and brings new features such as automatic updating of mixed content over HTTPS, modifying SameSite cookies, a quieter user interface for notifications, and more features for developers.

Chrome 80 strengthens browser security and begins to suppress cross-site cookies. For developers, who must stay informed of everything that is available in the browser, it also incorporates various features such as stream compression, improved CSS, encrypted media decoding, and many other features.

What's new in Google Chrome 80

In this new version of Google Chrome 80, the browser takes care of automatically updating mixed audio and video resources HTTPS sites by rewriting URLs to HTTPS without reverting to HTTP. And if they don't load over HTTPS, Chrome blocks them by default, with the exception of mixed images that can still be loaded, but Chrome will mark the page as "not secure" in the omnibox.

While for the next version of Chrome 81 (to be released in April) Google says mixed images will automatically update to HTTPS. If they are not loaded over HTTPS, Chrome will block them by default. Google's ultimate goal is to ensure that the HTTPS pages in its Chrome browser, used by over a billion users, can only load secure HTTPS sub-resources.

Another change that stands out in this release is the SameSit attributee (which was introduced in Chrome 51) to allow sites to declare whether cookies should be limited to the context of the same site, in the hope that this would reduce cross-site request forgery.

Chrome 80 comes with a new secure default cookie classification system, which will treat cookies that do not have a declared SameSite value. Secure will be available in third-party contexts and should still be accessible from secure connections, because from now on Chrome 80 will remove backward-compatible behaviors.

It also stands out that from this version of Chrome 80, Google tries to make unsolicited authorization requests less annoying.

Chrome 80 will now sometimes show a notification interface quieter permission settings. Browser users can voluntarily choose the new interface. Google says it will also automatically activate under two conditions: for users who generally block notification authorization requests, and on sites where the acceptance rate is very low.

Note that the "quieter" user interface is available on both desktop computers and cell phones. Google also plans to activate additional measures later this year to combat "abusive websites that use web notifications for advertising, malicious or deceptive purposes."

Regarding Chrome 80p improvementsFor developers Google introduces ECMAScript modules in Web Workers, a tool for web content to run scripts in background tasks. The Worers Module supports standard JavaScript imports and dynamic import for lazy loading without blocking Worker execution.

This is useful because importScripts () executes the scripts in the global frame, which can cause name collisions and associated problems, and blocks the Worker from running while retrieving and evaluating the imported script.

Chrome 80 also brings an update for the JavaScript V engine8. Version 8.0 includes pointer compression, higher order embed optimization, and JavaScript functionality such as optional chaining and null merge. Chrome 80 offers many other features for developers, such as stream compression and improved CSS, and many other new features that you can check out in the Google release note.

How to install Google Chrome 80 on Linux?

If you are interested in being able to install this new version of this web browser and you still do not have it installed, you can download the installer that is offered in deb and rpm packages on its official website.

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