{"id":69437,"date":"2014-07-17T00:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=69437"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:35:51","slug":"google-chrome-36-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-chrome-36-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome 36 update brings minor improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google updated its <a title=\"Chrome news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/chrome\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a> browser for Windows, Mac, and Android today. Most of the changes are under the hood, bringing <strong>stability and performance<\/strong> improvements.<\/p>\n<p>For desktop users, you can look forward to 26 separate security updates. Linux users get a special <strong>Chrome App Launcher<\/strong>, which has been available for <a title=\"Chrome App Launcher for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome-app-launcher.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a> and <a title=\"Chrome App Launcher arrives on Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-app-launcher-arrives-on-mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a> for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>For <a title=\"Android tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> users, rendering pages has been improved on non-mobile optimized sites. This means sites without mobile specific enhancements will look a bit better. <strong>Google Doodles<\/strong> return to the new tab page so you won&#8217;t miss out on obscure holidays.<\/p>\n<h3>How to update<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Windows\/Mac\/Linux<\/strong>: With Chrome open, click on the menu (three slashes) and then <em>About Google Chrome<\/em>. Chrome should automatically detect the new update and install it for you. You&#8217;ll need to relaunch your browser to finish the update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Android<\/strong>: Head over to your Google Play app and tap on the menu button (top left) to bring out the navigation menu. Tap on <em>My Apps<\/em> to check for the update. Alternatively, you can download it from the links below.<\/p>\n<h4>Downloads<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chrome for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Chrome for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome-mac.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Chrome for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Android<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/googlechromereleases.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/stable-channel-update.html\">Google Chrome Releases<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.android.chrome\">Google Play<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">Follow Lewis on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/div>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-windows-drains-more-battery-than-firefox-or-internet-explorer\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Windows drains more battery than Firefox or Internet Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-searches-now-warn-mobile-users-of-flash-content\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google now warns mobile users of incompatible pages<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/critical-adobe-flash-exploit-leaves-your-data-vulnerable\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Critical Adobe Flash exploit leaves your data vulnerable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google updated its Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Android today. Most of the changes are under the hood, bringing stability and performance improvements. For desktop users, you can look forward to 26 separate security updates. Linux users get a special Chrome App Launcher, which has been available for Windows and Mac for a while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-chrome-36-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Chrome 36 update brings minor improvements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":64396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-69437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330496,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69437\/revisions\/330496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69437"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=69437"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=69437"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=69437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}