[Changelog] What’s New in Google Chrome 100 and Later Versions

In this exclusive changelog article, we are providing information about all versions of Google Chrome web browser released after version 100.0 to public. You’ll find the release date and what’s new in each version of Google Chrome browser.

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For your convenience, in this changelog article, we’ll list all changes, fixes, improvements and new features found in all versions of Google Chrome browser (version 100.0 and later).

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Table of Contents

What’s New in Google Chrome 100.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 101.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 102.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 103.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 104.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 105.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 106.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 107.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 108.0?
What’s New in Google Chrome 109.0?

What’s New in Google Chrome 100.0?

Google Chrome 100.0 version was released on March 29, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

Tab Audio Muting: Now you can mute tabs using a single mouse click on Volume icon showing on the tab (How-to Enable Guide)
New ForceMajorVersionToMinorPositionInUserAgent policy to freeze or set the User-Agent string major version to 99. It’ll be helpful to users who have an app that is broken in Chrome 100 due to a User-Agent parsing error. Users can set the policy to 2 and the User-Agent string will freeze the major version at 99 and includes the browser’s major version in the minor position. (More Info)
Changes to tab-sharing blue border behavior: When a user shares tab, the blue border used to indicate that a tab is being shared no longer appears around the whole tab. Instead, only the captured content has a blue border.
You can now dismiss password alerts for compromised passwords. PasswordDismissCompromisedAlertEnabled policy can be used to prevent end users from dismissing password alerts.
iOS users can choose the default website view (Desktop or Mobile) using Settings.
Removal of Lite Mode on Android including the DataCompressionProxyEnabled policy used to control it.
Fix for the screen/window sharing permission bug where users were having trouble sharing their screens from Chrome on macOS.
Removal of AllowSyncXHRInPageDismissal policy which was provided for enterprises to get more time to adapt to the removal of synchronous XHR requests during page dismissal.
New policies to manage the WebHID API: DefaultWebHidGuardSetting, WebHidAskForUrls, WebHidBlockedForUrls, WebHidAllowAllDevicesForUrls, WebHidAllowDevicesForUrls and WebHidAllowDevicesWithHidUsagesForUrls.
Changes to the Certificate Transparency requirements. Certificates are no longer required to include signed certificate timestamps (SCTs) from one Google operated and one non-Google operated log, and instead are required to include SCTs from at least two logs from different operators. Additionally, the amount of SCTs required for certificates with a lifetime between 180 days and 15 months increase, from 2 to 3. The existing policies that allow selectively disabling CT enforcement (CertificateTransparencyEnforcementDisabledForCas, CertificateTransparencyEnforcementDisabledForLegacyCas, and CertificateTransparencyEnforcementDisabledForUrls) continue to work.
Addition of Multi-Screen Window Placement API to allow web applications to offer compelling multi-screen experiences.
Addition of Google Account-tied tokens to Enhanced Safe Browsing pings to enable better tailored protection after encountering Safe Browsing warnings.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 101.0?

Google Chrome 101.0 version was released on April 26, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

Side Search allows users to compare search results via a side panel UI to get the search results faster. This means users can view a page and the search results at the same time, without needing to navigate back and forth or losing their search results. You can control this feature using the SideSearchEnabled policy.
Chrome 101 enables prerendering the high-confidence Omnibox (address bar) autocomplete suggestions. Enterprises can opt-out of this feature using the NetworkPredictionOptions policy.
Chrome 101 protects user privacy by reducing the granularity of information in the User-Agent string. The MINOR.BUILD.PATCH version info in UA has been reduced to 0.0.0. You can control this using the UserAgentReduction enterprise policy. You can test the new reduced-granularity User-Agent string by setting the policy to 2, or you can delay the change while you update your apps by setting it to 1.
Removes setTimeout(,0) clamping to 1ms to bring Chrome in line with web specifications and might improve performance on some pages. This change might introduce bugs in web applications that rely on the current clamped behavior. If you have any apps affected by this change, you can use the SetTimeoutWithout1MsClampEnabled policy to revert to the Chrome 100 behavior.
Starting with Chrome 101, Chrome Browser Cloud Management maintains compatibility with the most recent 12 versions of Chrome. Older versions may lose some Chrome Browser Cloud Management features without notice, or behave unexpectedly.
Chrome removes support for WebSQL in a third-party context. The WebSQLInThirdPartyContextEnabled policy has been removed in Chrome 101.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 102.0?

Google Chrome 102.0 version was released on May 24, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

New redesigned user experience for browser downloads: The existing downloads shelf or panel has been replaced with a dedicated downloads bubble in Chrome browser’s toolbar. You can control this with the DownloadBubbleEnabled policy. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
Chrome now allows users (US only) to use Virtual Credit Card numbers in autofill. Virtual cards let users pay with unique virtual card numbers so they don’t need to share their real card numbers with merchants. When autofill is enabled, virtual card numbers are automatically generated at checkout for opted-in users. You can control Chrome’s credit card autofill behavior using AutofillCreditCardEnabled policy.
Chrome now creates separate user profiles for personal and enterprise-managed accounts. The ManagedAccountsSigninRestriction policy can be used to customize this behavior.
Chrome 102 might remove some URL parameters when a user selects Open link in incognito window from the context menu. You can control this behavior with the UrlParamFilterEnabled policy.
Chrome now sends CORS preflight request ahead of any private network access requests for subresources, asking for explicit permission from the target server. More improved functionality of the feature can be enabled and tested by using --enable-features=PrivateNetworkAccessRespectPreflightResults command-line parameter or by modifying chrome://flags/#private-network-access-respect-preflight-results flag. Users can disable Private Network Access checks using the InsecurePrivateNetworkRequestsAllowed and InsecurePrivateNetworkRequestsAllowedForUrls policies.
Chrome now leverages MiraclePtr to improve security. MiraclePtr is a technology that reduces the risk of security vulnerabilities relating to memory safety.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 103.0?

Google Chrome 103.0 version was released on June 21, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

The built-in DNS client is now enabled by default on Windows. Users can opt out by setting BuiltInDnsClientEnabled policy to Disabled.
The previous version of Chrome introduced a dialog box to users when they signed in to a managed account from an unmanaged profile. By default, Chrome would create a new profile for the managed account. This change was surprising to some users and their admins, and it has been removed by default in Chrome 103. If you want to keep it, you can still configure Chrome to show the dialog using the Managed Accounts Sign Restriction enterprise policy.
Credit and debit card autofill now supports cloud-based upload via Google Pay, enabling Autofill for your cards across all your Chrome devices. You can control credit card autofill with the AutofillCreditCardEnabled enterprise policy.
In Chrome 94 version, the team launched an experiment to replace the lock icon in the address bar as the connection security indicator. The LockIconInAddressBarEnabled policy was added to allow organizations to continue to show the lock icon during the experiment. The experiment is no longer active, so the policy is no longer available in Chrome 103.
The new Local Fonts Access API gives web applications the ability to enumerate local fonts and some metadata about each. The enterprise policies applicable to this feature are DefaultLocalFontsSetting, LocalFontsAllowedForUrls and LocalFontsBlockedForUrls.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 104.0?

Google Chrome 104.0 version was released on August 02, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

Improved first run experience on Windows: In Chrome 104 on Windows, some users might see a different sequence of onboarding steps in the chrome://welcome tab that is opened when Chrome is launched for the first time. Admins can use existing Enterprise policies such as BrowserSignin, PromotionalTabsEnabled, SyncDisabled to control the onboarding process.
Preconnecting on downpressed links: To increase page loading performance, for some users, Chrome 104 preconnects to the target of a link as soon as the user presses on the link without waiting for the user to lift their finger up or for JavaScript to execute. You can disable this behavior using the NetworkPredictionOptions policy.
Chrome 104 no longer supports OS X 10.11 and macOS 10.12.
Privacy Sandbox: The Privacy Sandbox release provides controls for the new Topics & Interest Group APIs. It also introduces a one-time dialog that explains Privacy Sandbox to users and allows them to manage their preferences. Guest users or managed EDU users do not see this dialog. Admins can prevent the dialog from appearing for their managed users by controlling third party cookies explicitly via following policies: BlockThirdPartyCookies and DefaultCookiesSetting.
Chrome 104 increases the nesting threshold (from 5 to 100) for setTimeouts and setIntervals with an interval < 4ms to improve short horizon performance. UnthrottledNestedTimeoutEnabled policy can be used to control this feature.
Beginning with Chrome 104, any newly set or refreshed cookies have their expiration date limited to no more than 400 days in the future. Cookies which request expiration dates after 400 days in the future can still be set, but their expiration is adjusted down to 400 days. Existing cookies retain their prior expiration date (even if it was more than 400 days in the future), but refreshing them causes the cap to be enforced.
Beginning in Chrome 104, as part of the Storage Partitioning effort, iframes are no longer allowed to navigate to a filesystem:// URL. This matches the existing behavior of forbidding top-level frame navigation to filesystem://.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 105.0?

Google Chrome 105.0 version was released on August 30, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

You can now move Side Panel to left side in Chrome (How-to Guide)
Chrome sync no longer supports Chrome 73 and earlier. You need to upgrade to a more recent version of Chrome if you want to continue using Chrome sync.
Browser extensions telemetry: If Safe Browsing > Enhanced protection is enabled, Chrome now collects telemetry information about installed extensions. It also monitors certain activities such as APIs executed and remote hosts contacted. These activities are analyzed on Google servers and further improve the detection of malicious and policy violating extensions. This improvement allows better protection for all Chrome extension users.
Removal of support for Chrome apps: Chrome apps are being phased out in favor of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and web-standard technologies. Starting in Chrome 105, if you’re force-installing any Chrome apps, users are shown a message stating that the app is no longer supported. The installed Chrome Apps are still launchable. Starting with Chrome 109, Chrome Apps on Windows, Mac and Linux will no longer work. A policy ChromeAppsEnabled will be available to extend the lifetime of Chrome Apps an additional 2 milestones.
Launch Renderer AppContainer: A further sandbox security mitigation applies to renderer processes. They are placed inside an additional App Container on top of the existing sandbox. This prevents malicious code from having any network privileges by subverting kernel APIs from within the renderer process. A new policy RendererAppContainerEnabled allows selective disabling of this security mitigation while these issues are resolved. You can set this policy to Disabled to force disable the mitigation, otherwise it is enabled by default.
Own default root store: To improve user security and provide a consistent experience across different platforms, Chrome maintains its own default root store and built-in certificate verifier. Chrome continues to use custom local roots installed to the operating system’s trust store. A new policy, called ChromeRootStoreEnabled, allows selective disabling of the Chrome Root Store in favor of the platform root store. You can set this policy to Disabled to force the use of the platform root store, otherwise it is enabled by default. The policy will be available until Chrome 111.
Web SQL deprecation: A deprecation warning is displayed in DevTools. In early 2023, Chrome team plans to remove support in third-party contexts. An enterprise policy, WebSQLNonSecureContextEnabled, is available when support ends, to allow Web SQL API to function in non-secure contexts if needed.
Policies on Mac distinguished between user and machine: Machine-level policies take precedence over user-level policies. Previously, all policies were set as machine-level, regardless of their origin. You can temporarily use the PolicyScopeDetection enterprise policy to revert to the previous behavior.
Disabling Chrome Variations no longer disables the Chrome Cleanup Tool.
Internal certificate viewer for server certificates on Mac and Windows.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 106.0?

Google Chrome 106.0 version was released on September 27, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

Chrome now allows users to search their history, bookmarks, and tabs directly in the Omnibox. Using one of the prepopulated shortcuts – @history, @bookmarks, or @tabs – users can choose to conduct a focused search limited to the area selected. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
Release of Prerender2 in Desktop which allows Chrome to pre-render pages that the user may highly-likely navigate next, aiming to produce an instant navigation. An enterprise policy, NetworkPredictionOptions, is available to block the usage of all prerendering activities which results in Chrome ignoring any hints or triggers to prerender a page.
Enhancement to screen labels feature for window placement. Screen labels meaningfully describe the screen to a user.
Updates to the instructional chip shown when using Google Lens. Some users see a new look on their instructional chip, which includes a helpful icon and updated text. This ensures users have all the information they need to search visual elements on their screen. You can control this feature with the LensRegionSearchEnabled enterprise policy.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 107.0?

Google Chrome 107.0 version was released on October 25, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

New Redesigned Downloads Experience: The existing downloads panel replaced with a new dedicated downloads bubble in Chrome browser’s toolbar. You can control this with the DownloadBubbleEnabled policy. This experience was initially rolled out in Chrome 102 version for some selected users and now all remaining users will receive the new downloads experience.
Chrome now shows a new welcome screen after the user creates a new profile through the sign-in intercept. The user can optionally enable sync as well as modify the new profile name and theme color. You can disable the welcome dialog by setting the PromotionalTabsEnabled policy to false.
Passwords Import Support: Users can now import their passwords using Chrome browser. Previously, users were only able to import via passwords.google.com. They can now upload a CSV file of passwords to add them to their saved passwords in Google Password Manager. If the users have sync enabled, their passwords will be available across their devices, where they are signed in with the same account.
Chrome will automatically remove the notification grant for sites that send disruptive notifications to users. These sites will also have subsequent notification prompts muted.
User-Agent (UA) String Reduction: Chrome now reduces some portions of the User-Agent string on desktop devices to minimize the identifying information shared in the User-Agent string which might be used for passive fingerprinting. The <platform> and <oscpu> tokens are reduced to the relevant <unifiedPlatform> token values and are no longer updated. Also, the values for navigator.platform are frozen on desktop platforms. The UserAgentReduction policy can be used to opt out of these changes.
Support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) on sites to improve our users’ privacy and safety. It can be enabled by modifying #encrypted-client-hello flag on chrome://flags page. EncryptedClientHelloEnabled enterprise policy can be used to disable support for ECH.
BuiltinCertificateVerifierEnabled policy removed on Mac. A new implementation is available that uses the built-in certificate verifier with the Chrome Root Store. You can control the new implementation using the ChromeRootStoreEnabled policy.
DisplayCapturePermissionsPolicyEnabled policy removed.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 108.0?

Google Chrome 108.0 version was released on November 29, 2022. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

New Memory Saver and Battery Saver modes added to improve performance and extend battery life. You can control these features using Settings > Performance page. New enterprise policies TabDiscardingExceptions, BatterySaverModeAvailability and HighEfficiencyModeEnabled can be used to customize these new features. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
Users can now save a customized note for each saved credential in the Password Manager. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
Chrome installer now pins Chrome shortcut to Windows taskbar by default. If you don’t want this functionality, you can use the “do_not_create_desktop_shortcut” setting in initial_preferences to control this behavior.
Chrome now allows users to price track products and receive email or mobile notifications when the price of a tracked item drops. Tracked items are saved alongside bookmarks with Sync. This feature is only available for signed-in, syncing users who have Web & App activity enabled. You can control this new feature using ShoppingListEnabled policy.
Chrome on Linux now uses the built-in DNS client by default. Enterprises can opt out from this feature by setting BuiltInDnsClientEnabled policy to Disabled.
Chrome now provides a custom default error page for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
Chrome now improves security by reporting misuse of internal callback mechanism via crash reports. You can control it using MetricsReportingEnabled policy.
The Cookies and site data dialog has been redesigned and simplified to display only per-site level information. You can use the DefaultCookiesSetting, CookiesAllowedForUrls, CookiesBlockedForUrls, and CookiesSessionOnlyForUrls enterprise policies to control this behavior.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented

What’s New in Google Chrome 109.0?

Google Chrome 109.0 version was released on January 10, 2023. It came with following new features, changes, fixes and improvements:

Lens image search enabled in Google search box on New Tab Page: Users will see a new Camera icon added in the search box on New tab page. This feature allows users to search by image, by uploading a file from their computer or entering an image URL. This feature will not show in Incognito, Guest User, or non-Google new tab pages. A policy LensDesktopNTPSearchEnabled can be used to control this feature. (How-to Enable/Disable Guide)
Chrome now unpacks and scans 7z archives for malware: Chrome’s Safe Browsing feature now unpacks 7z archives locally to check for malware. Chrome now also reports contained files, hashes, and lengths to Safe Browsing. You can disable this by disabling Safe Browsing with the SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel policy.
New improved UI for downloads warning: If Chrome detects a download to potentially steal user’s information, the information displayed on the download warning box is changed from “Chrome blocked this file because it is dangerous” to “This file contains malware that can compromise your personal or social network accounts”. You can disable download warnings by setting the SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel policy, or you can allow specific domain using SafeBrowsingAllowlistDomains.
New confirmation permission chips in address bar: When a user allows or denies a permission prompt shown by a website, Chrome now displays a permission chip label or icon inside the address bar to confirm the action taken by the user. The permission chip is displayed for 4 seconds. If the user clicks on the chip, Chrome opens the page info bubble to allow user to manage the permission settings for the current site.
New improved “About this page” Feature in Site Info UI: When a user clicks on the site info icon present in the address bar and selects “About this page” option, Chrome now shows more information about the website. This feature can be enabled or disabled by turning on/off the “Make searches and browsing better” option on “Settings > Sync and Google Services > Other Google services” page. You can control this setting with the UrlKeyedAnonymizedDataCollectionEnabled policy.
Security fixes and improvements
New group policies implemented