Chrome 96 is a web browser developed by Google Inc, available for download in full install version for Windows platforms from legacy sources. This version of Chrome was officially released on 2021-11-09 for public access and a brief summary of important updates and change log pertaining to this edition can be read below.

Google Chrome 96.0.4664.45 was built on Blink 96 layout engine using JavaScript V8 engine version 9.6.180. This version is released for Windows, iOS and android platforms and has many functionality additions apart from number of fixes and improvements. While windows edition has major changes, Android & iOS has limited updates in this release. 

Windows edition Changes

• One key change in this version is the Google team has removed the support of PaymentRequest API "Basic-Card" which is one step advance towards making the browser more secured..
• More power to Progressive web apps (PWAs) as now they can register themselves as URL handlers which could makes them more reliable than their counterpart web versions.
• Dark theme gets new life with site wide customization and now users can enable or disable dark themes to sites of their choice.
• Now navigation between pages would be more faster with this edition Chrome supports Backward-Forward-Cache in the desktop version also.
• This edition also equips the user to customize zoom to various percentage for sites of their choice. 

• Stability and performance improvements

• Stability and performance improvements.