Chrome 138 provides extra AI options, plus tab group sync throughout units

Google has launched Chrome 138, the most recent version of the browser that fixes a number of vulnerabilities, now in variations 138.0.7204.49/50 for Home windows and macOS and 138.0.7204.49 for Linux. In line with Google, not one of the vulnerabilities have been exploited within the wild but.

What’s new in Chrome 138?

On the “What’s New” web page in Chrome, Google advertises the flexibility to make use of tab teams on the go. With Chrome, now you can synchronize not solely passwords but additionally tab teams between your desktop and cell units. Google can be elevating consciousness of Chrome’s capability to look, choose, and duplicate textual content in scanned PDF paperwork, however Google doesn’t point out that this primary requires textual content recognition (OCR) and whether or not this takes place regionally or within the cloud.

In the meantime, Google is constant to increase AI integration, however a Gemini subscription is required to make use of it. A number of interfaces (APIs) allow entry to AI features: the Summarizer API summarizes longer texts, the Language Detector API determines which language the textual content is written in, and the Translator API interprets the textual content into the goal language. Chrome extensions can entry AI fashions by way of the Immediate API.

Safety points mounted in Chrome 138

Within the Chrome Releases weblog publish, Srinivas Sista names three safety vulnerabilities (of the 11 which have been mounted) that had been found by exterior safety researchers and reported to Google. Google classifies certainly one of these vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6555) as medium danger, which is a use-after-free vulnerability within the animation element. The opposite two vulnerabilities are solely thought-about low danger. Google doesn’t remark intimately on the internally found vulnerabilities.

As a rule, Chrome updates itself mechanically when a brand new model is obtainable. You possibly can manually provoke the replace examine utilizing the menu merchandise Assist > About Google Chrome (alternatively, Settings > About Google Chrome). Google has additionally launched Chrome for Android 138.0.7204.45 and Chrome for iOS 138.0.7204.53. The identical vulnerabilities have been mounted within the Android model as within the desktop variations.

Google plans to launch Chrome 139 on the finish of July. Chrome 139 for Android would require at the least Android 10. Chrome 138 is the final browser model that also runs on Android 8 (Oreo) and 9 (Pie).

Different Chromium-based browsers

The producers of different Chromium-based browsers at the moment are required to observe go well with with their very own updates. Microsoft Edge, Courageous, and Vivaldi are presently on the safety stage previous to this Chrome replace. All three will swap to Chromium 138 within the subsequent step, together with Vivaldi. Nonetheless, Vivaldi is more likely to take just a little longer than Courageous and Microsoft.

Opera’s browser model 119 continues to be caught with the outdated Chromium model 134, for which Google has not supplied any updates because the finish of April. As a way to meet up with the others, Opera must take an enormous step as quickly as potential and skip at the least two, ideally three, Chromium generations. Nonetheless, the present beta model Opera 120, which may quickly be promoted to the steady channel, solely incorporates Chromium 135 as an alternative of 138.