Google Chrome 78 is out: Forced dark mode, DoH trials, no more XSS Auditor
Summary
Version 78 of the Google Chrome web browser is now available for download for users of Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and iOS. Released today, Chrome 78, comes with a new customization menu for the New Tab page, tooltips when hovering nearby tabs, forced dark mode on every site, support for the Password Checkup tool, DNS-over-HTTPS trials, and the removal of the old XSS Auditor security feature. The hover card will make it easier for users with crowded browser toolbars to locate the tab theyre looking for at a particular moment, instead of cycling through all at once. While Firefox sends all DoH requests to a Cloudflare server by default, Chrome will not modify the local computers DNS settings. However, as the XSS Auditor aged and web standards advanced, the tool became highly inefficient, and Chrome engineers decided to remove it for good over the summer.