Chrome 90 is here and it comes with improved video compression to consume less bandwidth in video calls

Now that the browser market is more turbulent than ever, Google has released a new version of Chrome. The Mountain View browser reaches version 90, an update that can already be downloaded from the Chrome website and that comes with interesting improvements.

Chrome 90 comes with improvements that you will only experience by using it. There are no aesthetic or visual changes and to appreciate the changes we will have to pull the video playback. Improvements which always include bug fixes and performance improvements.

Optimizing Bandwidth

Chrome 90 comes with improvements in terms of playing video files and, above all, in security. With this version, Google covers a serious Zero-Day vulnerability that affected the browser and also Edge and that could facilitate third-party attacks to run applications remotely.

A threat we talked about yesterday that affected the V8 Javascript engine. With this update and along with this security breach, Google has also blocked port 554 for HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP servers, as it was being used for attacks .

Chrome 90 debuts new codec. AV1 is improved so that now you can improve the quality of video compression achieved by standards such as H.264 and H.265 and already offered by web applications as Duo, Meet, or Webex.

An improved compression that also benefits our data rate, especially if we use a mobile connection, since now with less bandwidth consumption we can experience the same quality In the same way, less powerful connections can also access better features.

Other novelties that arrive are the support for clipboards with read-only files or API WebXR Depth to improve physics in reality web applications increased.

The new version can now be downloaded from this link or from Chrome itself, checking in the settings if there is an update available .

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