Google Chrome 60 Hits Stable Channel with 40 Security Fixes, Many Improvements

Google on Tuesday promoted the Chrome 60 web browser to the stable channel for all supported platforms, including Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux, adding numerous security fixes and various improvements.

Initially pushed to the Beta channel earlier today, the Google Chrome 60.0.3112.78 update was seeded to the stable channel a few hours later, and it's now the most advanced stable version of the popular, cross-platform web browser. Users are recommended to update to Chrome 60.0.3112.78 immediately after reading this article.

As for the major improvements that Google implemented in this major update, we can mention that the Payment Request API is now supported, on the Android platform, it's now possible to use the VP9 open and royalty-free video coding format with the MP4 (ISO BMFF) container, and there's a new VP9 string format available.

Starting in Chrome 60, Google has deprecated the use of a custom fetch() function for accessing stored passwords, in an attempt t...