Google has just rolled out a new security patch for Chrome 157 that fixes 83 vulnerabilities on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

The update is live as version 157.0.8103.78 or .79 for desktops, while Android users will receive version 157.0.8103.78 through the Google Play Store over the next few days.

It comes hot on the heels of an emergency patch released just a couple of days ago to fix a nasty XML memory flaw tracked as CVE-2026-125350 that hackers were actively exploiting. This is the same exploit that also forced Brave to rush an emergency update for its own users.

Back when the initial Chrome 157 stable rollout started last week, it already carried over 200 security fixes, so seeing another 83 patches drop just days later is quite a surprise.

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Five of the vulnerabilities in this new batch are rated critical, Google’s highest threat level. To keep things simple, you should know that a shady website could use them to crash your browser or run harmful code on your machine without you even clicking anything.

Most of these flaws are memory hiccups in how the browser handles visuals, page layouts, and background tasks. As usual, Google is keeping the exact technical details under wraps for now, noting in its release log that “access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix.”

Another thing that’s becoming the norm with these security patches is that we’re seeing Anthropic researcher Xinyang Ge, the Claude AI model, and OpenAI’s Codex Security team being credited all over the list for hunting down dozens of these memory glitches before bad actors could find them.

While security teams are busy plugging memory leaks, the feature side of the browser is still moving forward, and we recently spotted Chrome testing a redesigned three-dot menu with a working search box in Canary builds to make digging through settings way less painful.

 
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PiunikaWeb’s Take

Browser updates used to roll out with a handful of fixes every few weeks, but AI-powered bug-hunting tools have sped things up considerably. Models like Claude and Codex can analyze millions of lines of Chromium code and flag deep memory errors in just hours, so we can expect to see large patch lists arrive more regularly. The important thing to keep in mind is that bad actors can use similar AI tools, too, which means there’s less time to stay safe if you’re using an outdated browser.

Even though Chrome downloads updates quietly in the background, the patch never actually kicks in until you completely close and relaunch the app. If you are someone who leaves fifty tabs open for weeks at a time, head into your About Chrome menu right now, grab the update, and hit that restart button.

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