While the Chrome Home options were first revealed over a year ago, the new home page interface is finally making its way to Chrome 61. Other changes include a compact translate bar and a new file picker.
Once you enable Developer Mode on your Chromebook and manually turn on the -enable-tablet-splitview flag in the Chome OS Shell, a new split-screen feature becomes available. Once this is done, you can press the overlay button to see all your open windows, and drag them to different sides of the...
Starting with Windows computers, users will be able to install multiple channels of Chrome on the same machine and run them in parallel with separate user data directories.
Lately, the focus of the new tab page experiment is on Android. Google recently launched Chrome Home and content recommendations. Now, they are improving these content suggestions with categories.
The latest Chrome update for Android brings several new improvements, including a new search widget, blocking vibrating ads, and it improves how Chrome handles payments.
A new commit to Chromium seems to indicate that Google is working to add a way for the user to choose which search engine they want set as default within Chrome.
Chrome Dev has a new UI that puts the toolbar, address bar, and all other controls at the bottom of the screen. We've been seeing this transition lately in a few of Google's apps as it generally makes them easier to use on phones with big displays.
In version 60 of the Chrome beta channel, Google is making a lot of changes in regards to Paint Timing API, CSS font-display, and Credential Management API improvements. This update also has dozens of other, smaller changes as well as some deprecations and interoperability improvements.
The latest Chrome beta has dropped featuring a new search widget, limitations to the vibration API to prevent malicious ads from using the vibration feature of your phone, and a new context menu.
DirecTV has announced they will be dropping support for Safari for those use want to use their service on the web. Instead, the company will only allow those who use Chrome to stream online.
A new update for Chrome on Android loads pages much faster thanks to an updated JavaScript engine. Google says pages will load 10-20% faster with this new fix.
We've seen reports about Google implementing ad-blocking software into Chrome in the past, and now the company has announced their plans. They will begin blocking ads for an entire website in early 2018 if the website is not compliant with the Better Ads Standards.
A Firefox marketing member recently wrote in a blog post that while he works for Mozilla, he uses Chrome every day. So in response, a former CTO of Mozilla says it's okay to admit you use Chrome because Chrome won.
If you have Chrome's developer branch installed, you may have noticed that there's a new suggestion bar at the bottom of the page (right above the keyboard) when asked to input your username and password.
Chrome allows you to pin web pages to your home screen for easy access on Android, but in Android O these pinned web pages will use whatever favicon is provided by the website instead of creating their own mask.
Google has been working on putting VR experiences within the Chrome browser for a while, and now they're going to bring that to VR headsets. Not only that, but the company is also making some Java Script and WebGL tools so web developers can build AR content right from the web browser.
In order to make paying for things easier on a smartphone in Chrome, Google recently announced their Payment Request API. This will allow for websites to send an intent to a 3rd-party application that will request the person's payment information.
Dark Mode settings are getting popular these days and even Google is experimenting with one for Chrome OS. The latest canary build of Chrome OS has this feature baked in, and should be pushed to the stable branch once the bugs are squashed.
The developer branch of Chrome for Android comes with a new search widget that loads faster than the traditional one. So instead of tapping on the regular Google Search widget (that can take seconds to load), this search screen loads up in less than a second.
Back in the beta version of Chrome 57, Google added a way to save a web page so that you could view it later. That feature has now been rolled out to the stable channel for Chrome on Android and they give you two different ways to trigger it.
WonderHowTo has a nifty guide on how to speed up Google Chrome if you have a rooted device. You'll need an app called Kernel Adiutor in order to do it.
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