Google Chrome browser 107is released, with new support for HEVC / H.265 decoding

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com October 25, the official version of Google Chrome browser 106was launched four weeks ago, with many experimental and deprecated features. Today, the official version of Chrome browser 107is coming, which supports High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) decoding.

HEVC, also known as H.265, is a video compression format supported by many modern applications. Google Chrome browser 107will support decoding of this format by default.

Other enhancements to the official version of Chrome browser 107include small features enabled by default, including improvements to CSS grid-template attribute interpolation, allowing developers to achieve specific interactive effects, prompts for display surfaces that exclude the current tab function, and buttons to toggle display tabs during screen sharing. In addition, URLPattern has an option to ignore case, better render blocking support, and the "rel" attribute of the form element.

Finally, in terms of deprecation, the Expect-CT HTTP head of the official version of Google Chrome browser 107has been cut off, which is a way for websites to migrate to certificate transparency (CT) execution. However, Google said it now needs to do so by default, and since no other browser vendor implements this configuration, the adjustment will have no impact on current usage.

CTOnews.com learned that Mozilla's Firefox Firefox has no plans to support HEVC and has even expressed opposition. In discussions dating back to 2016, Mozilla stressed that it had no HEVC plan and called it a "patent burden" and would instead focus on supporting AV1 decoding.