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Google Chrome is getting a new browser heads-up display that displays performance metrics about the web pages you are visiting. To help users analyze these metrics on web pages, Google released a Chrome extension named Web Vitals that displays an on-screen HUD with performance metrics for web pages you are visiting.

Google has updated its Chrome web browser, fixing four bugs with a severity rating of "High" and eight overall. An updated 87.0.4280.88 version of Chrome addresses the bugs and will "Roll out over the coming days/weeks," Google wrote.

To make sure Chrome users aren't utilizing weak passwords, Google Chrome's Safety check feature will alert you if your passwords were found in data breaches. Google is now working on a new feature that will automatically detect and highlight weak passwords when performing a Safety check, as shown below.

Google Chrome will soon let you search through your open web pages to find that missing page lost among a sea of tabs. To help with this mess, Google is testing a new 'Tab Search' feature in the Chrome Canary builds that allows you to search your open tabs for a particular keyword.

Google is slowly rolling out a new feature to Google Chrome 87 that allows you to type commands in the address bar that perform specific browser actions. This new feature is called 'Chrome Actions' and allows you to type in a command, causing an action to be displayed in the address bar search results.

Hidden behind a flag is a much-anticipated PDF reader that users can enable right now. The PDF reader or viewer within Google Chrome has always been relatively simple, especially compared to other browsers, like Microsoft Edge.

Google this week announced an update to its Chrome store policies that requires all extensions to be explicit about the collection and use of user data. Now, Google is limiting what developers are allowed to do with the user data they collect, and the new policy requires developers to be clear about their extension's privacy practices, directly on the Chrome Web Store listing.

Starting January 2021, developers of Chrome extensions will have to certify their data use and privacy practices and provide information about the data collected by the extension(s), "In clear and easy to understand language," in the extension's detail page in the Chrome Web Store. "You'll need to provide information about your app's privacy practices, including the practices of third-party partners whose code you integrate into your app, in App Store Connect," Apple told app developers.

Google has released patches for several high-severity vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser with the rollout of Chrome 87 for Windows, Mac and Linux users. At a high level, an attacker could remotely exploit the flaw by persuading a victim to visit a specially crafted website.

Google is currently working on fixing a known issue causing a Google Chrome web browser version launched earlier today for Apple processors to suddenly crash. "Earlier today we updated our Chrome download page to include a new version of Chrome optimized for new macOS devices featuring an Apple processor," Chrome Support Manager Craig Tumblison said.