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Google Removing Screenshot Editing Feature from Chrome


Mon 30 Jan 2023 | 09:53 PM
Omnia Ahmed

Google is reportedly planning to remove the screenshot editing feature that allows users to edit screenshots directly on their desktop browser.

The feature was first introduced in Chrome Canary version 98 and was expected to be released outside of its feature flag. The tech giant aimed to make the tool accessible to all users.

Based on a report by AndroidPolice, Google’s engineers recently made a series of commits to the Chromium Gerrit. New updates to Chrome's open-source code base are submitted on the Gerrit.

The latest commits highlighted that the screenshot editing feature has been entirely removed from the browser. The report added that it takes nearly 10 weeks for commits in Chromium to make their way to the stable version of Google Chrome.

Last November, Google pushed an emergency update for the Chrome web browser to fix another zero-day vulnerability that has been misused by attackers since 2022.

The new update called this high-severity flaw CVE-2022-4135. The tech giant indicated that this vulnerability is a heap buffer overflow in GPU which was recently discovered by a member of the company’s Threat Analysis Group.

Google affirmed that it is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-4135 exists. Nonetheless, the company has withheld specific details about the security flaw to prevent its exploitation.