Google announced today that it is switching to weekly Chrome security updates in order to better protect users from hackers. The company says that the new schedule will reduce the window of opportunity for threat actors to exploit known vulnerabilities in Chrome.

Under the old schedule, Google released security updates for Chrome every two weeks. This meant that there was a two-week period between the time a vulnerability was discovered and the time it was patched. This gave hackers plenty of time to develop and deploy exploits for the vulnerability.

With the new weekly update schedule, Google hopes to reduce this window of opportunity to just one week. This will make it much more difficult for hackers to exploit known vulnerabilities in Chrome.

In addition to the new weekly update schedule, Google is also making other changes to Chrome to improve its security. These changes include:

Increased use of sandboxing to isolate malicious code

Improved memory management to prevent crashes that could lead to security vulnerabilities

More rigorous testing of Chrome for security vulnerabilities

Google says that the combination of these changes will make Chrome one of the most secure browsers on the market. The company is encouraging users to update to the latest version of Chrome as soon as possible to benefit from these new security features.