Weekly Issue: 2023-51

In recent years, we’ve witnessed a significant shift in the way we watch TV. As traditional cable TV services are gradually replaced by more flexible and modern solutions, YouTube TV has emerged as a frontrunner.

Two of my favorite productivity tools built right into ChromeOS and into the Chromebook you may own are the wildly-useful overview mode and window-snapping feature.

It’s funny, just the other day I found myself remarking just how good Nearby Share has become. Since its humble beginnings on Android devices, this service has expanded to Chromebooks and Windows PCs to give users a simple, easy way to get files from one device to another.

It’s no secret that we keep up with Chromebook deals around here. We even have a post that is updated frequently to reflect the best deals you can get on any given day.

Related Website Sets is a way for an organization to declare relationships among sites, so that browsers allow limited third-party cookie access for specific purposes. It is designed to minimize disruptions to specific user-facing features once Chrome starts limiting access to third-party cookies by default.

On this episode of The Chrome Cast, we begin by talking about the amazing deals out there right now for Chromebooks under $300, and the conversation simply took off from that point.

For the past couple updates of ChromeOS, a new feature showed up that is quiet, out of the way, and has now become indispensable to my daily workflow.

Back in 2020, Google began introducing the ability for app developers to push their PWA to Chromebooks from the Play Store instead of the Android app. And I 100% love this decision.

Follow the link to learn all about the CSS features that landed this year in Chrome → https://goo.gle/css-wrapped-2023 #ChromeForDevelopers #CSSWrapped2023

Image: The Verge Google’s Safety Check feature for Chrome, which, among other things, checks the internet to see if any of your saved passwords have been compromised, will now “run automatically in the background” on desktop, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.

Over the past week or so, I’ve been giving Google’s Video Boost for Pixel 8 Pro a try, and I’ve been both impressed and frustrated by it.

Here at Chrome Unboxed, we’re dedicated to helping you make informed purchase decisions. We have spent countless hours researching, testing, and evaluating Chromebooks so that we can help our readers find the perfect Chromebook for them.

Barry joins Jecelyn again to talk about the Fetch Priority API and how it can be used to improve LCP image load times. Learn how to view priorities in DevTools and see the impact this API can have to improve your Core Web Vitals.

Chrome 120 for desktop is set to arrive shortly and with it comes a few nice feature upgrades that further enhance the performance and safety of Chrome for users across all desktop platforms.

Chrome’s latest release comes with improved security and performance features, plus the ability to save your tab groups.

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader and is positioned furthest in vision among all vendors evaluated in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems.

Storage Access API allows iframes to request storage access permissions when access would otherwise be denied by browser settings.

 Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 120 (120.0.6099.144) for Android: it’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Back in October at the Chromebook Plus Event, the ChromeOS team did something they don’t normally do: they gave us a look at some new features that would be “coming soon” to Chromebook Plus models.

Of all the Chromebooks that emerged in 2023, the Lenovo Flex 3i Chromebook was one of the first out of the gate that ended up being an absolute favorite all year.

I’ve been using WhatsApp across the board since the demise of Allo (remember Google’s Allo?) in 2018. In that time, I’ve largely relied on the web version for messaging from my Chromebook and things have been relatively good from that standpoint.

In today’s GUI Challenge, @AdamArgyleInk uses grid, masks and an input type range to create a comparison component. Chapters: 0:00 – Introduction 0:41 – Debugging Corner 1:30 – HTML 2:22 – CSS layout 4:50 – CSS range 7:57 – CSS mask 9:58 – Javascript 12:55 – Adding content 14:57 – Recap 17:10 – Outro Resources:…

The Stable channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.129 for Mac,Linux and 120.0.6099.129/130 to Windows which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the nulllog. The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.129 for Mac and 120.0.6099.

he 15.6-inch HP Chromebook Plus is half off through Christmas Eve. Normally priced at $499, you can snag one for a large stocking at just $249.

If you’re considering using Vertex AI to train and deploy your models, you’re on the right track! Data is essential for machine learning, and the more data a model has and the higher quality it is, the better the model will perform.

With all the drama and instability surrounding the roll-out of ChromeOS 119, it was bound to happen that we’d miss a few details here and there. I said as much when we covered some of the new stuff in the 119 update, and it turns out I was right.

Chrome 120 brings the solution with CloseWatcher, a new API for directly listening and responding to close requests. It also includes upgrades to dialog and popover="" to use the new close request framework, so that they respond to the Android back button. #NewInChrome

Microsoft bug hunters highlight weaknesses in source-wrangling suite Four vulnerabilities in Perforce Helix Core Server, including one critical remote code execution bug, should be patched “immediately,” according to Microsoft, which spotted the flaws and disclosed them to the software vendor.…

Landed in 2023 in Chrome are View Transitions which allow you to create rich transitions between two page states of your SPA. Follow the link to learn all about it and more CSS features that landed this year in Chrome → https://goo.gle/css-wrapped-2023 Catch more Shorts → https://goo.gle/CSSWrapped #ChromeForDevelopers #CSSWrapped2023

Here are some of our favorite Chrome extensions from this year to help you get work done and have fun.

In the world of technology and cloud computing, the news comes fast and furious. Blink and you’ll miss it.

It’s sort of funny when “hard deadlines” simply vanish and get pushed down the road.

Don’t look now, but what is likely the most popular Chromebook in 2023 (even though it was released in 2022) – the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5 – is once again on sale and it’s just in time for last-minute Christmas shopping.

We will inevitably all drop our phones and crack the screen at some point. Or maybe something like the speakers will randomly stop working.

Building on the “Chromebook Plus” platform that Google unveiled earlier this year, ASUS has revealed the ExpertBook CX54 Chromebook Plus, which packs high-end specs, including up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor.