Chrome 100 has now been upgraded to a stable version for Linux/macOS/Windows/Chrome OS. The many changes in the new version include :
- Update parsing of cookie strings to allow setting the cookie's domain attribute to an empty string. This change will also correct failing web platform tests related to empty string domains. Additionally, it aligns Chrome with the draft RFC6265bis specification and will improve interoperability with Safari and Firefox by matching the handling of empty cookie domain attributes.
- With Capability Delegation support, a framework can relinquish the ability to call a restricted API and transfer the ability to another sub-framework it trusts.
- Introduced the Digital Goods API for querying/managing digital products for in-app purchases from web applications. The web app in the Google Play Store can now easily accept purchases of digital goods. The Digital Goods API was originally considered the Origin Trial.
- The multi-screen window placement API is better able to handle multi-window applications that require accurate positioning of certain windows and other similar use cases. Example use cases for the multi-screen window placement API include cross-screen slideshows, financial applications for cross-monitor window dashboards, medical imaging applications, creative applications on multiple screens, and more.
- The "plus-lighter" value of the mix-blend-mode CSS option, allows two elements to be cross-faded by changing the opacity of the other element from 0 to 1 and from 1 to 0, while keeping the common pixels unchanged.
More details are available at ChromeStatus.com . At the same time, Google also released an updated Chrome 101 development version.
Google has warned that reaching version 100 in Chrome and Firefox could wreak havoc on sites that rely on identifying browser versions to perform business logic, and offered some strategies to mitigate the impact.