Weekly Issue: 2020-29

Google is testing to ensure Autofill is disabled on mixed forms for Chrome on Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. Chrome also shows a warning to let the user know it prevented data in the form from being sent over an insecure connection.

Google made a commit to enable Touch to Fill feature by default in Chrome 84 for Android. Recently Google has released Chrome 84 for Android. Soon Chrome will autofill the password when you touch the username field.

If you’ve updated to Chrome 84 and noticed colors washed out on your monitor for browser UI and website content? This is because the Chrome flag –“Force color profile”– you enabled to use a specific color profile has been removed in version 84.

Google is launching a major update to its G Suite productivity tools today that will see a deep integration of Gmail, Chat, Meet and Rooms on the web and on mobile, as well as other tools like Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Slides.

Google has added flags to Chrome Canary on Android for users and developers to enable and test the LiteVideo feature. Recently we’ve reported Google has added LiteVideo support to Chrome on Android to stream videos in low-resolution when the Lite Mode is enabled.

The supposed memory improvements that Segment Heap brings to Chrome on Windows 10 2004 are at the cost of increased CPU usage, Google found in their tests. The Chromium team has disabled the Segment Heap feature in Chrome 85 for now.

Recent Chrome Update has broken YouTube HDR videos on Windows 10 where the videos appear with too much brightness when the “SDR content appearance” slider is set to the maximum level in HD Color Settings. Google has acknowledged the issue and readied a fix, which might land in Canary first.