This week, Google is releasing a couple of upgrades to Chrome for desktop that will make your surfing experience safer and offer you greater control over your browser’s memory consumption.

The highlight of this upgrade is the proactive Safety Check. Starting with version 120, which was released a few weeks ago, Chrome’s Safety Check on the desktop will now run in the background and send out proactive notifications when it detects a compromised password in Chrome or malware in an extension you’ve installed. It will also notify you when Chrome needs to be updated.

What’s maybe more important is that Chrome’s Safety Check will now automatically remove access you may have granted to a site in the past but haven’t used in a while. That’s similar to how Google handles Android permissions currently, and it can help guarantee that a site you no longer use gets location or microphone access.

Also new: If a site you don’t visit often gives you a lot of notifications, Safety Check will ask if you want to turn them off. The sanity has been restored.

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