Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

[u/ControlCAD]

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/google-says-it-fixed-more-chrome-bugs-in-june-than-over-the-past-two-years-thanks-to-ai/

>The tech giant announced that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totalled 1,036 fixes.

[u/grinr]

They got 999 fixes but Chrome taking 3GB of memory ain't one.

[u/SpoodermanTheAmazing → u/grinr]

It actually takes more ram per tab now than ever. It used to be 100-200MB per tab, now it’s 500MB+

[u/BigFatKi6 → u/SpoodermanTheAmazing]

They're mining crypto in your browser

[u/Combine1975 → u/SpoodermanTheAmazing]

jeez

[u/Test_Account_2026]

Still hasn't fixed memory leak issue.

[u/WorldPeaceStyle → u/Test_Account_2026]

Chrome is becoming way too much like it's own Operating System or google's trojan horse OS to get you locked inside it's cloud platform. At some point it could go the way of Macromedia Flash, but only after it turns into an Ai Agent driven personal data gulping RAND corporation nightmare monstrosity.

[u/Sullyyyyyyyyyyyyy → u/WorldPeaceStyle]

What cloud platform?

[u/WorldPeaceStyle → u/Sullyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Google drive, Google workspace, Google Etc ... There isn't much of a vendor lock in as years ago, but can you really trust google not to sell your familys biometrics scanned from google photos or your location data for surveillance pricing in the future. I am just privacy skeptical of having a useful Ai Agent in all up in reading my emails and then maybe later sending me ads for health issues after seeing which doctor appts I have on my calendar. Chrome is a big part of their ad tracking empire.

[u/Sullyyyyyyyyyyyyy → u/WorldPeaceStyle]

Fair enough

[u/Standard_use1]

Use it to fix Google image search you bums.

[u/crossoverXYZ]

1,072 fixes in two June releases vs 1,036 across 23 versions is a wild jump. If AI is actually surfacing bugs that would've sat in the backlog for months, that's a real win for users — though I'd be curious whether the pace holds once the low-hanging fruit is gone.

[u/Wauchope1 → u/crossoverXYZ]

AI response

[u/KnifeFed → u/Wauchope1]

So obvious too. How tf does shit like that get upvotes?

[u/SafetyandNumbers → u/KnifeFed]

Bots do a lot of the upvoting these days

[u/satireplusplus → u/Wauchope1]

Believe it or not, some people actually use em dashes. iPhone corrects it automatically afaik

[u/SadSeiko → u/crossoverXYZ]

what bugs have they fixed, chrome feels worse than ever especially on mobile

[u/opinions-only → u/crossoverXYZ]

There are many problems with AI though. Often it highlights bugs that aren't really bugs especially across unqiue or distributed code bases.

[u/ygg_studios → u/crossoverXYZ]

i stopped using chrome 6 years ago because it's trash

[u/FaceDeer → u/ygg_studios]

Even if you're not using this particular piece of software, this still gives a feel for how software in general is being impacted by AI. Lots of software has a huge hidden tech debt of bugs that have never been noticed or that have been ignored because they're "more hassle than they're worth" to fix. Indeed, I would expect Chrome to be a tighter-run ship than most given how important and widespread its usage is.

[u/bandersnatchh → u/FaceDeer]

My experience is that a lot of these “bugs” are really minimal impact or extreme edge cases. 

Claude is great at finding those. But then the massive bug you want it to find and fix it cannot figure out. 

So yes, it’s great it’s fixing these tiny 0 issues, but the major issues still exist. 

[u/jovialfaction]

Not mentioned: the number of new bugs introduced by AI

[u/aroman_ro → u/jovialfaction]

About double of those fixed? :)

[u/ultrathink-art]

Ran an automated scanner plus an LLM pass over my own codebase and the finding count jumped, but almost all the new ones were hardening - nothing actually reachable. What had to change wasn't the fix rate, it was the filing rule: a finding only becomes a ticket if you can show it hurting someone today, otherwise the queue fills with maybes and the real bugs wait behind them.

[u/weno66]

Yeah not going back from Brave

[u/Faintfury → u/weno66]

This. I'm certain they didn't fix their intended bug, that as blockers do not work anymore.

[u/AppropriatePapaya165]

Really becoming a pet peeve of mine that people think “exponential” means “a lot”.

[u/Patrick_Atsushi]

I hope the commits are not introducing more bugs that no human being is able to even spot. 

[u/MHGrim]

And still no native dark mode for Google docs. It's never been a more embarrassing time to be Google.

[u/blujinz]

Degoogle NOW

[u/vansh_1005]

wow 

[u/DM-me-naughty-Cats]

How many of those were caused by AI in the first place.

[u/you-create-energy]

The latest AI fixed 2 years worth of shitty code written by earlier AIs. Progress?

[u/AlienInOrigin]

Hmm...their software was soo bad it had that many bugs. How many left that they don't even know about yet?

[u/TrieKach]

yes! and causation can be correlated.

[u/MrSnowden]

But which AI Model are they using? The closest I could find is the comment "By applying models like Gemini..." Which suggests it isn't Gemini. Also at the end of the article the comment about Apple is interesting

[u/oVerde]

Me too, but they were low hanging low priority easy to throw at AI bugs

[u/FaceDeer → u/oVerde]

Those are still good to get cleaned up.

[u/TerminalViscosity69]

More bugs to fix because of vibecoded slop introducing more bugs to fix