Category: Google Chrome

One of the new features in Chrome 115 is Reading Mode in the sidebar. It allows viewing the simplified version of a web page side-by-side with its regular style. The nice thing about it is that both views scroll synchronously as you read any of them. Finally, the user can customize the reading view style.

On July 18, Google released Chrome 115 to the stable branch. The new version adds several user interface changes, including the updated sidebar. It also supports the Mica effect on the titlebar. Besides, it fixes 20 vulnerabilities.

You can finally enable Mica in Google Chrome stable. Developers were working on this feature for quite a long, but it is now here under your fingertips. While it is still disabled by default, all you need to do is to change one flag to activate the cool Windows 11 effect in the Chrome browser.

Google Chrome 114 is available in the stable branch with several user interface changes. Its password manager is now a PWA that can have its own desktop shortcut, and comes with several improvements. The side panel allows managing bookmarks with advanced sorting and filters.

The latest update for Google Chrome is great news for users who want to customize their browser's appearance. With the new update, users can tweak up the browser's look, and especially the new tab page, using the side panel. It now hosts a dedicated category with gorgeous themes and styles.

Earlier in April, we reported that there was a proposal to the Chromium code base that adds Windows 11's Mica effect to the window frame of the browser. It didn't take long for it to reach users: Chrome Canary comes with Mica titlebars enabled by default.

The Chromium project has announced an update regarding the lock icon, which is used to indicate a secure connection in web browsers. Starting in Chrome 117, which releases in early September 2023, the lock icon will no longer be displayed in the address bar of Chrome and other Chromium browsers. Instead, it will show a new "Tune" icon.

As follows from the activity in Chromium's Gerrit service, world's most popular web browser, Google Chrome, may soon receive the Mica-enhanced appearance of the window frame.

Google has detailed the changes they have done to the browser in past 3 months. Those improvements made it notable faster. The optimization directions include faster DOM parsing and JS handling.