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Google Quietly Releases Chrome 62 to Stable Channel for Linux, Mac, and Windows

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Marius Nestor
Oct 17, 2017

If you’re updating your Chrome browser right now on your Linux, Mac or Windows PC, you’ll receive version 62.0.3202.62, a release that it would appear to the introduce a more aggressive “Not secure” warning for websites that are still using the HTTP protocol instead of the more secure HTTPS (Secure HTTP) one. Chrome 62 also improves the network information API by implementing network quality indicators, adds support for OpenType Variable Fonts, and introduces the ability to capture and process media streams from HTMLMediaElements using the Media Capture from the DOM elements API.

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Marius Nestor

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