Chrome v153 early stable version is now available for Windows and Android

Chrome recently moved to a two-week update cycle to improve security in a growing AI landscape. However, every update now includes more bug fixes, stability improvements, and security patches — major user-facing features haven’t really shown up for a few weeks now.

The Chrome v153 update is now available as an “early stable” version. An early stable version is initially released to a small percentage of users, and others will get it normally at the original planned dates.

On the official “Chrome Releases” page, Google posted about the new early stable versions that are now available for both Windows and Android. The changelog doesn’t have much information; as usual, it redirects you to a Git log and merely mentions stability improvements.

The previous Chrome v152 update was also largely a resolution of security issues.

I checked on my system (running macOS), and I couldn’t find this version available yet; it still shows v152 as the latest one.

However, the announcement page for the desktop version mentions that the macOS version is coming “shortly,” so it might take some time.

The Git log mentions resolutions for various crashing issues, improved DevTools, some security patches, fixes for some bugs related to vertical tabs and the overall UI/layout, and some specific fixes for developers. There isn’t any headline new feature or major user-facing feature to talk about here. It’s just overall improvements that enhance the overall experience of using the browser.

If you’re a developer, though, it brings a lot of useful additions which we covered in detail here.

While v153 is now available for Android and Windows (early stable), the iOS version recently landed in beta with stability tweaks (more on that here).

In other Chrome news, the v154 beta finally brings something that users can notice. It takes aim at annoying CAPTCHAs. We covered that here.

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