Google just released Chrome 67 for desktop, as spotted by ZDNet.
This version of Chrome will allow password-free sign-ins for most
websites, meaning you can avoid hunting through a password manager for
specific credentials.
Password-free sign-ins come from the Web Authentication standard, which was launched in March by the FIDO Alliance
and the W3C. It lets you sign in to any virtually any online service
through unique credentials that you don’t have to memorize, such as
fingerprint readers, USB keys like YubiKeys,
etc. The standard is also meant to make it less likely a bad actor can
obtain your most commonly used passwords by making it easier to give
each service different login credentials.
Mozilla’s Firefox was the first to get the standard, while plans for Chrome and Microsoft Edge to adopt the standard later were hinted at.
Chrome 67 is also increasing its use of site isolation,
keeping each browser tab separate so that a site can’t easily access
data from other open tabs, which is a fix it initially rolled out to
address Spectre-style
attacks. Chrome will also be more compatible with VR through the
Generic Sensor API, which is a standard used among fitness trackers and
VR headsets, and it should pave the way for more integrations between
desktop and gadgets to come.
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