GOOGLE Chrome's 2.6billion users have been urged to download the latest update, after around 15 security flaws were detected and fixed.
Chrome 113 addresses, which went live just last night, introducesnew features as well.
Cyber researchers outside of Google's in-house teams discovered 10 of the vulnerabilities as part of the company's bug bounty programme.
This is when Google rewards researchers for alerting them to cyber flaws, instead of exploiting them.
In this case, Google forked out more than $30,000 in bug bounty rewards.
Google hasn't provided much detail as to what the cyber flaws are, in case it encourages hackers to take advantage of them before most Chrome users have updated their browser.
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"Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix," Google wrote in a blog post.
"We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed."
Users shouldn't immediately panic, however.
These security issues are of medium to low severity, according to Google.
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The tech giant hasn't spotted any cases of them being exploited in the wild either.
But it's still recommended to download the update just in case.
Chrome has likely already updated itself on your laptop or PC.
But if it hasn't, simply follow these steps: Open Google Chrome, click the three dots in the right hand corner of the screen > Help > About Google Chrome.
You will then have to wait for it to download.
Once it has, click Relaunch and the new version of Chrome will load in.
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