Confession: After about a month of using the fancy new Vivaldi browser, I returned to Chrome on my desktop, punished and resigned. Everything would be fine if it were not for the tendency of the former to stumble when dragging tabs into new browsers. In any case, for those who have stuck with Google’s mass advertising and surveillance program, version 104 includes no less than 27 new security fixes that you’ll need right now.
Most of the bugs were discovered and submitted by non-Google members of the Chromium team who make changes to the open source version of the browser, which Google then rolls into the main version of Chrome. Security researchers who hunt for these vulnerabilities can make good money through Google’s bounty program. The top prize for version 104 went to an anonymous entrant who discovered a head injury bug in the omnibox’s behavior and received a cool prize of $10,000.
The new version is heading to the stable channel now, so you should see it automatically update over the next few days, unless you’re on a beta or newer version of Chrome. If you can’t wait that long, press the main menu button, then “Help” and “About Google Chrome”. The update process should start immediately. A restart will apply the changes.