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.

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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.

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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.

To address Tab overflow issue in Chrome, Google added Grouping Tabs and Scrollable tab bar features. Chrome lets you scroll through extraneous tabs that no longer fit in the tab strip through Scroll buttons.

Google Chrome comes with Software Reporter Tool and it reports potentially unwanted programs found on your computer to Google. Chrome has this functionality baked and offers the Cleanup tool in Settings to perform an on-demand scan for adware.

Media Hub in Google Chrome is getting better and better to control music. Till now, in addition to offering playback controls, the redesigned Global Media Controls allows us to enter the playing video in Picture-in-Pcture mode and select audio devices connected to play the music.

Chrome for Android has recently received a Safety check feature, after rolling out Enhanced protection to desktop, Google is planning to bring the same to Android as well. But the feature can be already enabled in Chrome for Android, here is how you can do that.

Both Chrome and Edge support running PWAs when you log in to your computer. But the option to control the web apps from running on startup hasn’t been offered in these Chromium browsers.

Google is working on a new feature for Chrome’s New Tab Page that shows advertisements on shopping based on your browsing activity on Google services. Currently, the feature is behind flags in Canary and you can here see a glimpse of what coming to the new tab in Chrome.

For the last 10 days or so, Chrome and Edge users including Brave started reporting they’re seeing debug.log file on the desktop. According to reports, it is created when they open PDF files in Chrome or Edge, or another Chromium browser.

Google is bringing a slew of new features to address the tab overflow problems in the Chrome browser. Till now it has shipped grouping tabs feature with collapsing support to organize tabs. Chrome’s upcoming Tab Scrolling and “Tab Search” features may actually solve the issue for most users.

Recently we reported Chrome is getting a new Profile Picker interface and Ephemeral profiles. Google is now looking to make sure resources are freed up when a profile’s last window is closed. Generally, this happens when Chrome is closed completely.

After upgrading to Windows 10 May 2020 Update, version 2004, Chrome users reported that they’re noticing Sync pause and cookies got deleted after every restart. Then Google, with help of Microsoft tried to figure out the root cause, but they were not able to.

Google Drive storage is very useful and, in the days of G Suite, business owners had the ability to get unlimited Google Drive storage. Unfortunately, though, unlimited Google Drive storage going away with Workspace.

Google rebrands G Suite, Apple announces its next event date and John McAfee is arrested. This is your Daily Crunch for October 6, 2020. The big story: G Suite becomes Google Workspace To a large extent, Google Workspace is just a rebranding of G Suite, complete with a new set of (less distinctive) logos for…