Google releases Chrome 110 and abandons Windows 7

What happened now? Windows 7 originally went into production on July 22, 2009 and is no longer officially supported by Microsoft. And now one of the most popular PC operating systems is losing support for another hugely popular app, Google Chrome.

Released on February 7, Chrome 110 is the first version of the most popular web browser that won’t run on Windows 7. Google is following Microsoft’s lead in ditching the old operating system for good, and Chrome now requires at least Windows 10. That’s not the only change made. update, but by far the most outstanding, especially for the many millions of users who are still using the ancient OS.

Chrome 110 He was promoted to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux, where the update will be released in the coming days and weeks. Chrome 110 includes several changes and improvements, especially in the area of ​​security, where Chromium developers have fixed at least 15 security bugs with a severity rating of “high” (3) to “low”.

Bug fixes have been found in the V8 JavaScript engine, WebRTC communication, GPU usage, and elsewhere. As usual, Google thanks all the security researchers who worked with the company during the development cycle to make the stable version of Chrome a bit more secure than before.

Chrome 110 also includes customizable network error pages and the ability to use biometric authentication “on supported computers” (meaning where the biometric hardware is actually present) when managing passwords with the browser’s own password manager. Chrome 110 is also the first version to support Nvidia’s RTX Video Super Resolution, a proprietary technology that makes it easy to scale video streams on GeForce RTX cards.

Other changes include setting up automatic translation for selected languages, support for manual translation on iOS, and a simpler password verification process. Chrome desktop users can now improve security by enabling support for the system’s screen lock ID method when biometric hardware is not available.

Starting with Chrome 110, users still using Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows Server 2012/R2 will have three options. They can continue to use an older version of the browser that is still compatible with the aforementioned operating systems, or switch to another browser such as Firefox (Mozilla developers are also discussing how to drop support for Windows 7). right now.) The third option, and probably the best, would be to install a newer version of Windows or upgrade your PC if your current hardware doesn’t support the newer OS.

Microsoft will continue to support Windows 10 until at least 2025.