What that means, in essence, is goodbye to all those annoying auto-play videos. Bliss! Though advertisers may disagree.
You won’t have to worry about visiting websites that will interrupt your music or general browsing experience with videos that follow you up and down a webpage until you paused or close them out.
Chrome 64 will let you mute the website for good by going to Content Settings or right-clicking on the tab, with the option to change it back in the same fashion. The feature would be rolled out in Windows, MacOS, and Linux machines in the coming weeks.
The update will also provide High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for any PC running the latest version of Windows 10 and an HDR-compatible monitor. And one of the 53 bug fixes will involve disabling the SharedArrayBuffer feature that made the browser vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre security bugs Intel discovered earlier this month.
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