Category: Google Chrome

Google has announced a new feature to help browser users access their files in Drive faster. Soon, Google Chrome will start displaying relevant files from Google Drive on the New Tab Page. This capability joins the feature Google introduced in 2019 that allows users to search for files in Drive using the address bar in Chrome.

A fancy user interface is not the number one priority for a good browser, but users do not mind when developers pay more attention to how their browsers look. Recently, Microsoft introduced a set of redesigns for the Edge browser on Windows 11 with rounded corners and the Mica effect on the tab strip and context menus. Now Google wants to follow suit.

Chrome for Android will soon be able to open desktop versions of websites by default. Earlier this month, Microsoft Edge for Android received a new experimental flag that forces the browser to load desktop versions of websites by default whenever possible. Recently the same flag arrived in Chrome Canary for Android.

Google is working on several improvements for the Incognito mode to help users better understand how it works. The company recently introduced a new experimental flag that enables a slightly improved Incognito greeting window. It comes with a clearer explanation of what Incognito does and what it does not (similar improvements are now available in Edge 94).

In November 2020, Google launched the new Manifest V3 platform with significant improvements, such as better security, more web technologies support, and better performance for extensions in the Chrome browser. Now the company published information about the upcoming removal of Manifest V2 support in Google Chrome.

In March 2022, Chromium-based browsers will move from two-digit to three-digit app versions. Such a change might throw a wrench into the Internet and break compatibility on millions of websites. To prepare its browser for a major shift in version numbers, Google starts testing Chrome 100 UA or user-agent string.

You can disable Idle Detection API in Google Chrome if you are not happy with this new feature in the browser. Google Chrome 94 introduced a highly controversial API that allows web developers to get more information about users and their interactions with other applications. Called "Idle Detection," the new API is already raising concerns among privacy advocates and other browsers developers.

Just a little over three weeks since the last "major" update to Chrome 93, Google is back with another release. This time, version 94 is available to all users in the stable channel. If you wonder why it took so little to release another version, that is because Google switched from a six-week to four-week release schedule.

Google has updated the Stable channel of the Chrome browser to version 93.0.4577.82 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The update will roll out over the coming days/weeks. There are 11 security fixes, including two for which exploits are already available.

A few days ago, Google released the first beta of Chrome 94, which brings with it new web standards designed to improve games in the browser. In particular, the release includes the WebCodecs API, which can make cloud gaming easier and faster, and the experimental WebGPU technology should make it easier for developers of browser games to use the computing power of the device.