Chrome 83 adds DNS-over-HTTPS support and privacy tweaks

After delays to Chrome version 81 in March, and the scrapping of version 82 a month later, this week sees the early arrival of Chrome 83 with a longer list of new security features than originally planned.

As browser updates go, it’s a lot to take in although some of them are more tweaks to existing features than anything radically new.

It’s hard to pick out a single big feature, although for some it will be upgraded support for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), a privacy technology that makes it much harder for third parties (ISPs, the Government, malevolent parties) to see which web domains someone is visiting.