Category: Google Chrome

Google is updating the Chrome browser with a new option for the Reading List. Since a lot of users find it inconvenient to use a hidden flag to disable the Reading List option, the Mountain View company has followed the users' feedback. The change is already alive in Canary.

Reading list is a relatively new feature in the Google Chrome browser that extends functionality of bookmarks. It includes two section, Read and Unread. This allows you to track what you have checked from your bookmarks, and what your forgot to read.

In Google Chrome 90 and onward, the browser will start loading websites via HTTPS by default when no protocol is explicitly specified, or a URL is partially entered by the user. Currently, Chrome will try to load a domain via HTTP if you type an incomplete URL for it. E.g. if you type winaero.com into the address bar, it will first load http://winaero.com.

It is now possible to enable or disable Live Caption in Google Chrome. The company is rolling out this new feature to everyone. When enabled, it will automatically create captions in real time for audio and video content on most websites.

Here's how to enable or disable Side Panel in Google Chrome. It is another improvement made to the browser. The new feature extends the recently introduced Reading List feature that will now appear in a sidebar on the right of the browser's window, along with bookmarks.

Users have been complaining that Google Chrome freezes when typing text at least since June 2020. Unfortunately, there is still no official fix available in stable or preview channels. This led users to look out for some quirky ways to bring back Chrome into a working state. If your Chrome sometimes freezes when typing text, here is how you can fix this.

You may be aware of the Tab Scrolling feature in Google Chrome. When enabled, it adds two buttons to the right if the last tab in the tab row, and doesn't shrink the tab width when you have many tabs opened. Those buttons were visible all the time, but now they will appear when only needed.

Google has published a new blog post where it detailed memory management and performance improvements in the latest Chrome 89 release. According to the company, Chrome 89 significantly reduces memory consumption on Windows machines–up to 22% less in the browser processes, 8% in the renderer, and 3% in the GPU.