Chrome 145 now hyperlinks with Google Pockets for autofill comfort
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In abstract:
- PCWorld studies that Chrome 145 now integrates with Google Pockets for enhanced autofill, permitting quicker completion of addresses and fee particulars when signed into Chrome.
- This replace addresses 11 safety vulnerabilities together with high-risk buffer overflow and CSS use-after-free points, with no lively exploitation reported.
- Customers can entry the Google Pockets autofill characteristic by means of Settings > Autofill and passwords > Enhanced autofill for streamlined on-line transactions.
Google has mounted 11 safety vulnerabilities within the newest Chrome variations 145.0.7632.45/46 for Home windows and macOS and 145.0.7632.45 for Linux. In response to Google, none of those vulnerabilities are being actively exploited within the wild but. Chrome 145 was really scheduled for launch final week. Google hasn’t given any causes for the delay.
Chrome often updates robotically when a brand new model is obtainable. You’ll be able to manually set off the replace verify by way of the menu merchandise Assist > About Google Chrome. Google will launch Chrome 146 in early March.
What’s new in Chrome 145?
Chrome is now linked to Google Pockets, permitting the browser to robotically fill in types with information from Google Pockets.
On the browser’s What’s New tab after updating, Google highlights the productiveness beneficial properties that may come from linking Chrome to Google Pockets, making it quite a bit quicker to fill out addresses, fee strategies, and different particulars when testing. You’ll find the settings for this characteristic in Chrome below Settings > Autofill and passwords > Enhanced autofill. It is advisable be signed in to Chrome for “Enhanced autofill.”
Safety fixes in Chrome 145
Within the Chrome Releases weblog submit, Srinivas Sista lists the 11 safety vulnerabilities that have been mounted in Chrome 145. These not solely embrace vulnerabilities reported to Google by exterior researchers however all vulnerabilities (albeit with a one-day delay). Google is listed because the discoverer for 3 of the 11 safety vulnerabilities.
Two of these vulnerabilities are categorised as excessive danger. Nevertheless, neither the buffer overflow within the codecs part (CVE-2026-2314) nor the “inappropriate implementation” within the WebGPU module (CVE-2026-2315) are sufficient to clarify the week-long delay in Google’s launch of this new Chrome model.
Google additionally classifies the use-after-free vulnerability within the CSS part (CVE-2026-2313) as excessive danger, which was beforehand reported in December. In the meantime, Google classifies 6 different vulnerabilities as medium danger and a pair of as low danger. The time period “inappropriate implementation” seems a number of extra occasions.
Google has additionally launched Chrome for Android 145.0.7632.45 and Chrome for iOS 145.0.7632.55. The Android model addresses the identical vulnerabilities because the desktop variations. The Prolonged Steady Channel for Home windows and macOS now contains Chromium model 144.0.7559.173.
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This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
