Weekly Issue: 2020-26

Google Chrome to show “New” badges on menu items for users to know about new features. The feature is already available behind a flag in Chrome Canary and is working. You can learn Chrome’s new functions through official blog posts by Google or by looking at chrome://flags page.

Of late, Google has been constantly improving PDF Viewer in the Chrome browser. For instance, it developed an option to see PDF in a two-page view and let you save PDF forms. Now, the company is working on a new UI for the PDF Viewer.

Google has been working on adding UI for Chrome on Android to create and share screenshots behind Custom Share Sheet feature for some time now, the Screenshot Editor is now available and working to some extent in Chrome Canary.

Google Chrome’s Lite mode feature on Android will now Sync with Smartphone Data Saver and going forward, it will also respect Windows 10’s Meter Connections and iOS’s Low data mode settings. A year back, Google had renamed ‘Data Saver in Chrome to ‘Lite mode’.

If you regularly write in Spanish, you’ll be happy to hear that Google today announced that its neural network-powered grammar suggestions in its Docs online text editor are now available in Spanish, too. Just like with grammar suggestions for English, though, this feature will only be available for G Suite customers for now — but…

Since Google Chrome launched on iOS in 2013 Apple users have asked for one thing: the ability to make it their default browser. Finally Apple has listened.

Google Chrome’s memory usage is legendarily huge, but Google is apparently doing something about it through a new ‘segment heap’ memory manager feature.

After the desktop, Google is adding the ‘Safety check’ tool to Chrome on Android. Recently, Google introduced redesigned security and privacy settings for Chrome on the desktop, along with them, Chrome received a built-in tool to check browser security and update status.