The new Chrome browser by Google, Chrome 69, is probably an important improvement in browser functionality, look and feel, and security. But, as you might expect, the first version available for general users is buggy, perhaps very buggy. I would wait a little while for the bugs to get all hunted down and exterminated. How long? A week or two should do it.<\/p>\n
This new 10th anniversary edition (has it only bee 10 years?), which you can download here<\/a>, is said to be faster. However, speed is more of a function of your internet connection and computers’ speed, so how much that matters will depend on your situation. In-line results, in the place formerly known as the Address Bar, are new. You’ll see things in there like the actual weather, not just a link to the weather, or say Google believes you have documents or links related to an upcoming trip, and you put the destination city in the search bar … you may get a link to your files. That sort of thing.<\/p>\n Security is improved, but I can’t really say how. Flash is handled differently, more gingerly, so that’s one thing.<\/p>\n The biggest difference, probably, is the overall look and feel It is rounder and flatter, as things are these days. Material design style, for those keeping track. There are more and perhaps better themes, and you can play around more with the background.<\/p>\n There is a thing called Picture in Picture mode. I think this allows you to deploy that annoying feature some web sites already have where a video that is playing follows you around and refuses to go away. Yay!<\/p>\n A variety of things, like downloading certain files instead of using or “playing” them, like web sites that won’t work or that are greyed out. It is actually not worth listing these problems here because even as we speak they are being fixed. Within the last few hours, 40 bugs were fixed, most of which most people didn’t even see.<\/p>\n My biggest concern is that there are URLs I must visit now and then that Google habitually sees as insecure (but they are gateways through which it is difficult to pass, and otherwise do nothing). If the new Google Chrome is super security oriented and not perfected, I may not be able to do certain things. So, I’ll keep a computer with the old Chrome indefinitely just to make sure, once I do upgrade.<\/p>\n I am about to launch two heavily modified or freshly home built computers, and I’m a bit worried that if I do that right now, and install the available version of Chrome, I’m going to have problems. What that really means for me is keeping Firefox on those boxes, just in case!<\/p>\n I believe this is called Chrome 69 simply because it is the 69th version. But I for one do not remember earlier vesions being called by their name so overtly, so I’m wondering if there is another reason. I tried typing “why is it called 69” into Google. I got lots of answers, but not to my specific question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new Chrome browser by Google, Chrome 69, is probably an important improvement in browser functionality, look and feel, and security. But, as you might expect, the first version available for general users is buggy, perhaps very buggy. I would wait a little while for the bugs to get all hunted down and exterminated. How … Continue reading Do Not Upgrade To The New Chrome! Yet.<\/span> What’s wrong with this first release of Google Chrome 69?<\/H3><\/p>\n
Why is it called 69?<\/H3><\/p>\n