Category: Google Chrome

Google Chrome's latest  performance tool has become available in the stable channel. The browser can now show Performance Issue Alerts for heavy web pages, and optimize them with one click in order to make them consume less system resources.

Google Chrome 130 has introduced a new style of toast notifications that appear when you have successfully done some system action. E.g. it will inform you that a link has been copied to the system clipboard, shared, or added to the reading list. The new toasts appear in the screen center at the top of the browser frame, right below the address bar.

One of the new features of Chrome 130 is the ability to freeze tabs in Energy Saver mode that consumes a lot of system resources. This will greatly extend battery life of your device. Google is going to gradually enable it in Chrome 131, but you can give a try to this useful feature right now.

Google Chrome 130 has reached the stable channel. The infamous change in this update is ManifestV3 that has become available to more users, and it makes uBlock Origin unusable. The rollout of the change has reached some critical stage, so a lot of users now find their manifestV2 extensions disabled. Besides this unfortunate move, Chrome 130 has several new features to offer to the user. Let's dive into the details.

World's most popular web browser, Google Chrome, has reached version 129. The update is notable for inclusion of the new AI-powered feature - Tab Compare. There are also a number of important security fixes.

Google has added tight Lens integration to Chrome 127 and onward. Its button appears in the URL box, in the search flyout (Ctrl + F), and in the main menu. If you do not use Google Lens, you may find this change pretty annoying. Here is how to disable Google Lens in the Chrome browser and remove the Lens button from everywhere.

Google is working on a compact mode in the Chrome browser. It aims at offering an alternative UI that should free up more space on screen and reduce control padding. This way, the browser will get more room to display the web content. At the moment, the feature is only available in the desktop branch of the browser.

Google is about to run an experiment with built-in artificial intelligence in the Chrome browser. Currently, the company invited participants to join a closed test of embedding a large machine learning language model into Chrome.