Chrome has recently got the ability for the user to search through tabs open in various windows in the browser. The responsible Tab Search feature is getting improved in the Canary version.

It doesn’t matter whether your Windows or macOS using a light or dark theme, the whole Chrome Incognito window including menus and other parts to go as dark soon.

Recently, Google has quietly enabled Read Later feature by default in Chrome 89. The always visible and permanent Reading List button in the bookmarks bar occupies valuable screen space.

Chrome App on iOS allows to save articles to read later, Google is working to bring the feature to Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. Initial bits of the “Read later” feature landed in Chrome behind a flag sometime back.

With multiple windows open, with multiple tabs each, finding and switching to the right window is not an easy task, especially if Windows has the same pages open. Google is addressing this for Chromium with the Window Naming feature.

This includes a hub to control your Android phone.

After the first appearance, the Privacy Sandbox page in Chrome 91 Canary was recently updated with a new logo and more details. The page says the initiative is available in certain regions and sites can try out the feature while using third-party cookies.

When you visit a foreign language page in Chrome on Android, a translation bar appears at the bottom and offers options for translation. You can even tell Chrome to always or never translate those pages in the future.

In addition to the Themes by the Chrome team and third-party developers on Chrome Web Store, Google has recently published themes from the Black Artists Collection in Black History Month.

After Tab Search and Chrome Actions, Google has brought a search interface to Chrome named Quick commands (formerly Commander). This appears always on top and shows respective Chrome commands in the drop-down including entries from bookmarks and history while you type. You’ll finds this similar to Vivaldi Quick commands.

It’ll be far more affordable than its predecessor.

Till now, Chrome on Android shows Progressive Web App install dialog at the center when you select the install option in the menu, this is going to change. Google is working to implement a bottom sheet for PWA installs and so far, the feature is already working in Chrome Canary.

Following recent developments on status bar change in Progressive Web Apps and PDF Presentation mode and landing of Privacy Sandbox, two new features added to Chrome 90 Canary behind flags.

Who needs a Nest Hub?

Recently we covered Chrome PWAs can be uninstalled from Settings or Control Panel, Google is making another change related to Progressive Web Apps. As of the latest, the company is testing hiding the status bar in PWAs.

Unlike Chromium Edge, Windows 10 Settings App or Control Panel applet doesn’t list Progressive Web Apps installed in the Chrome browser to remove. Google has made changes to Chrome 89 to make this possible on Windows.

The newly announced ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5 will have Intel 11th gen Core i7 CPUs inside and Intel Iris Xe graphics chips.

It can survive factories — or your desk.

Chrome recently received Presentation Mode and other PDF features. Google is trying to add another feature that Chrome lacks when comes to PDFs- the ability to show PDF metadata or document Properties. The chromium team has started working on the feature and is now available in Canary.

The price of Samsung’s flagship Chromebook has been nearly cut in half. It’s $549.

The price of Samsung’s flagship Chromebook has been nearly cut in half. It’s $549.

The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 targets a different market segment with its down-spec’d screen and chassis.

Chrome already doesn’t allow third-party cookies by default in Incognito mode. That’s not enough and to make the web more private for users, Google is planning to kill 3rd-party cookies forever. The company wants to put cross-browser tracking under control through a new initiative called ‘Privacy Sandbox.

Chrome soon will allow saving passwords to your Google account instead of to password manager in the device and it also lets you move passwords saved on the device in Chrome to Google Account for secure sign-in on all devices.

Your kids’ school might get a big help.

Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer behind a flag got a big upgrade recently. PDF Viewer with a completely new interface shows Table of Contents and allows to view a PDF in a two-page layout, and supports annotations.

Google is testing a new way to expose some of the experimental features it is testing in the Chrome browser to users. The new feature is called “Chrome Labs”.

You may occasionally see an error with the Chromium browser that informs updater is currently running, refresh in a minute to complete the update.

Recent versions of Chrome and Edge aren’t opening to some users. OfficeScan agent in Trend Micro security Product s blocking these apps and preventing them from running. This has been acknowledged by the Security vendor and promised they’ll release a fix soon.

New Microsoft Edge based on Chromium supports Chrome extensions. You can install extensions in Edge from Chrome Web Store or Edge Add-ons Store. As of now, the latter contains a limited number of extensions. Contrary to Edge Add-ons Store, Chrome Web Store contains thousands of extensions.

To protect users’ privacy, beginning with Chrome v65, Google has taken away the ability to take screenshots in Incognito mode on Android. Now the company is looking at its decision again and is working to make it possible again.

Recently Google has released Chrome 87 with new features and performance and memory improvements. “Chrome Actions” is one such new feature that lets you do things right from the address bar without the need to visit the Privacy and Security Settings.

Google has released Web Vitals Chrome extension that shows Web Performance metrics for a page in Heads Up Display such as largest contentful paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. In addition to these, Chrome may natively display Smoothness metric as well on Android and other platforms.

Chrome will no longer use Windows Segment Heap going forward. Google has decided to end the experiment after Microsoft informed it won’t offer control over the heap type. Chrome is switching to PartitionAlloc for Chrome as the company felt it” seems to offers the desired memory savings “.

After adding a new interface to the Profile Picker, the Chromium team is now updating Chrome’s manage profile page by bringing the custom theme generator available on the new tab page in the customize menu.