Chrome adds Google Lens search for anything on a webpage

Google Chrome is a fast, simple, and secure web browser, built for the modern web. Chrome combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Google builds powerful tools that help you connect, play, work and get things done. And all of it works on Chrome.

Is Google Chrome safe and private?

The Chrome browser utilizes site isolation, sandboxing, and predictive phishing protections to keep your browsing secure, among others. However, Google's browser always raises privacy concerns due to the fact that everything you do in Chrome, including every character you type into the address bar, is recorded by Google and linked to you. While using other Google services, all that data may be cross-referenced.

More privacy-conscious users may prefer to use Firefox or other Chromium-based alternatives (that may or may not record as much data) or try Ungoogled Chromium.

Is Chrome the fastest browser?

Chrome, Firefox, Safari and other major browsers are updated every few weeks, so it's hard to compare them over time which is the fastest. Chrome is known to be a RAM hog, but when used heavily, other browsers are known to be just as resource-consuming.

Google is good at creating the illusion of speed with prediction algorithms that preload parts of web pages that you are likely to visit. With a minimalistic design, you'll feel at home with Chrome, plus built-in integration with other Google services and mobile browsing can also be very convenient.

What are the best Chrome alternatives?

There are tons of good and free alternatives for browsing the web. If you want a more private browsing, you can opt for Firefox or Brave. If you don't want to use Google services, you can use Ungoogled Chromium.

Opera, Microsoft Edge and Vivaldi are other great options, these last two are Chromium-based just like Google Chrome.

What are the best features of Chrome?

Chrome is the most popular web browser out there, so website compatibility with it and other Chromium-based browsers is top notch. Performance is usually perceived as good (see question above).

Chrome is also feature-filled but not bloated. It does integrate nicely with other Google services and also lets you sync browsing history and bookmarks with your phone and other devices. Finally, Chrome has a vast library of extensions to add capabilities to your browser experience.

Features

Speed

Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way: It's quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap, and runs complex web applications fast. Learn more about Chrome and speed.

Stay organized with tabs

Tabs help you stay organized, keep track of multiple pages, and multi-task. You can group tabs together for better organization or pin tabs to automatically open websites you use the most.

What's New

A new way to customize your toolbar

Pin your favorite features and shortcuts as toolbar buttons.

• At the top of your browser, select Chrome menu > More Tools > Customize Chrome .
• From the side panel, review the list of toolbar buttons that make it easy to quickly access things like bookmarks, print, Search with Google Lens, and more.
• Choose the toolbar buttons you want to pin and they will appear in your toolbar.

Share passwords on your phone

Easily and securely share a copy of a password with your family group in Google Password Manager on your phone.

iOS

• Tap the Chrome menu > Password Manager .
• Select the password you want to share, then tap Share .
• Select family members to share your passwords with.

Android

• Tap Chrome menu > Settings > Password Manager.
• Under Search passwords, select the password you want to share, then tap Share .
• Select family members to share your passwords with.
• Scan the QR Code to get Chrome on your phone.

Check out more quickly and securely with autofill

Fill in your full payment card details the same way you unlock your device - with a fingerprint, face scan, or screen lock PIN - instead of entering your card security code.

• Go to Settings > Autofill and passwords > Payment methods.
• Select Manually verify every time you pay using autofill to use your biometrics the next time you checkout.

Search anything you see on any page with Google Lens

Google Lens in Chrome makes it easy to search anything you see on your screen. Search within a video you're watching, a slide in a livestream, or an image on a webpage. Google Lens will give you answers right there, in your tab, and you can continue browsing with the new information you've found.

• Open the Chrome menu.
• Select Search with Google Lens .
• Select anything on the page by clicking and dragging anywhere on the page.
• Refine the answers by typing in the search box in the side panel.
• For quicker access, click Pin in the side panel to add the icon to your toolbar.

Security

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 132 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 132.0.6834.83 (Linux) 132.0.6834.83/84( Windows, Mac) contains a number of fixes and improvements – a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 132.

The extended stable channel has been updated to 132.0.6834.83/84( Windows, Mac) and will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven't yet fixed.

This update includes 16 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

• [$7000][374627491] High CVE-2025-0434: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Reported by ddme on 2024-10-21
• [$7000][379652406] High CVE-2025-0435: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2024-11-18
• [$3000][382786791] High CVE-2025-0436: Integer overflow in Skia. Reported by Han Zheng (HexHive) on 2024-12-08
• [$2000][378623799] High CVE-2025-0437: Out of bounds read in Metrics. Reported by Xiantong Hou of Wuheng Lab and Pisanbao on 2024-11-12
• [TBD][384186539] High CVE-2025-0438: Stack buffer overflow in Tracing. Reported by Han Zheng (HexHive) on 2024-12-15
• [$5000][371247941] Medium CVE-2025-0439: Race in Frames. Reported by Hafiizh on 2024-10-03
• [$5000][40067914] Medium CVE-2025-0440: Inappropriate implementation in Fullscreen. Reported by Umar Farooq on 2023-07-22
• [$2000][368628042] Medium CVE-2025-0441: Inappropriate implementation in Fenced Frames. Reported by someoneverycurious on 2024-09-21
• [$2000][40940854] Medium CVE-2025-0442: Inappropriate implementation in Payments. Reported by Ahmed ElMasry on 2023-11-08
• [$1000][376625003] Medium CVE-2025-0443: Insufficient data validation in Extensions. Reported by Anonymous on 2024-10-31
• [$1000][359949844] Low CVE-2025-0446: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions. Reported by Hafiizh on 2024-08-15
• [$1000][375550814] Low CVE-2025-0447: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation. Reported by Khiem Tran (@duckhiem) on 2024-10-25
• [$1000][377948403] Low CVE-2025-0448: Inappropriate implementation in Compositing. Reported by Dahyeon Park on 2024-11-08

We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

• [389761478] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.