'Catastrophe' forces Google to halt update to Android version of Chrome - Android

, Google has had to apply the brakes to the Chrome 79 update for Android devices. This action was taken after a bug in the update caused the loss of data in certain Android apps. As a result, when users opened these apps, it was as though they were loading them for the first time. Saved data disappeared including login information. This happened because before Android 10, Chrome handled the rendering of web pages inside other apps, a feature called WebView on Android. As an example, if you use an app that is basically a "wrapped-up" web page, or a browser that doesn't have its own rendering ...