Google on Wednesday released Chrome 120, the latest version of its cross-platform web browser. This is a deprecated version that removes support for Theora. The Theora video format is rarely used today, and redundant code in web browsers poses a growing security risk, so Google is preparing to remove it.
As of yesterday, Google started a 1% stability experiment to turn off support for Theora. Over the next month, this will become a 50% stable experiment, and then by February, the Chrome 123 browser code will be removed. It is worth mentioning that, following the Google Chrome browser, Mozilla is also paying attention to the removal of Theora.
Chrome 120 does add a number of new CSS features, including "image" syntax support for registering custom properties, "transform-function" and "transofrm-list" syntax for registering custom properties, :dir() pseudo-class selectors, exponential functions, the check() method of the font loading API, and CSS masking support.
Chrome 120 also adds f16 support and maxBindGroupsPlusVertexBuffers limit for WebGPU. Chrome 120 also further adds media query scripting capabilities and various other new web development features.
Chrome 120 also brings a series of security fixes. For details, please check the Chrome release blog:
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
For more details on what's new in Chrome 120, visit:
https://chromestatus.com/roadmap