Google has announced the release of Chrome 143 web browser. Furthermore, a stable release of the free project Chromium, which serves as the foundation of Chrome, is also available. Chrome differs from Chromium in various aspects such as the use of Google logos, a crash notification system, modules for playing DRM content, automatic update installation, Sandbox isolation, Google API keys provision, and passing RLZ parameters during searches. An Extended Stable branch is supported for those needing more time to update, spanning 8 weeks. The next release, Chrome 144, is scheduled for January 13.
Major changes in Chrome 143 include:
- Disabling support for the XML document transformation language XSLT in Chrome 155, along with deprecated APIs like XSLTProcessor and instructions parsing XML style sheets due to security risks associated with the libxslt library. The use of XSLT is estimated to be minimal at 0.02%.
- Introduction of the new AI mode in Chrome 143, allowing users to interact with an AI agent from the address bar or new tab page. Users can ask complex questions in natural language and receive aggregated answers from relevant web pages on a given topic. The AI mode also enables direct questioning about page content from
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