“Focus Tab” a feature flag that showed up many moons ago is finally working in the Canary version of Chrome. Focus Tab When enabled, this lets you right on a tab and switch that into a separate window with minimal UI. You basically have the whole window for the website. Here is a GIF demo: […]
First Look – “Tab Groups” in Chrome for Android
Tab Groups, a feature that is still pretty much work-in-progress in desktop versions Chrome, is coming to Android too. I did write about this last week, but today, I have more details on how this might look like. Tab Groups in Chrome for Android The latest version of Chrome Canary (a highly experimental version) for […]
Assistant to be Part of Chrome OS Launcher
Google Assistant on Chrome OS was first a Pixelbook exclusive. Even there, it looked like an afterthought, a plugin that Google pasted on top of Chrome OS. This, however, changed when the new version of Assistant launched for all Chromebooks. It is changing again. A newly added flag in the Canary version of Chrome OS […]
Google Launches Animated “Chromebook Simulator” Help Site
For the past few weeks I have been busy writing some very long Chrome OS resources like this one here. Looks like the technical communication team at Google was also quite busy putting together a new type of help resource. Chromebook Simulator is an animated interactive tutorial that walks you through various Chrome OS tasks. […]
Chrome is Testing “KV Storage” a “Built-in Module”
I am way out of my comfort zone here, so I will keep this short and simple. Google is working on a new experimental feature for Chrome called “Built-in Modules”. This is not really just a Chrome specific feature, but part of a plan to move the web forward. You can read the technical details […]
You Can Now Send Links From Chrome to Chrome (Your Own Devices)
The flag “Send tab to self” showed up in Canary weeks ago. (It is even present on the Stable channel of Chrome OS now). The flag added “Send to My Devices” option in the tab context menu (right-click on any tab) and I have been trying this for days. Today, it started working. On Chrome […]
“Recent” Section of Chrome OS File Manager to Include Files from Linux Too
“Files“, the built-in file manager app has a “Recent” section which shows recently used files. This list includes files from Chromebook’s local storage, files from Google Drive and even files from Android apps. Google is working on bringing Linux files to this list. The code commit that I noticed today clearly says “Add Crostini in […]
Chrome’s “Tab Group” Feature is Coming to Android Too!
If you are reading about Chrome’s upcoming Tab Groups feature, here is what we know so far: Chrome will soon let you group tabs to organize them better. If you add a website to a group, any new links you open from the same website will be added to the same group. Tab groups will […]
Chrome to Support Windows 10 System Styling for Video Captions
Speaking of prepping Chrome for the upcoming Chromium based Edge browser from Microsoft, here is one more feature that Chrome is adding to better support Windows 10. Chrome is adding support for Windows 10’s system styling video captions. Windows 10’s closed captions feature allows users to customize the look and feel of captions. You can […]
Drag and Drop Emails and Attachments from Outlook to Web Apps With Chrome #comingsoon
A feature request going back to 2013 is finally getting answered, at least on Chrome for Windows. For Outlook users on Windows, dragging and dropping emails and attachments to web apps like Dropbox or Google Drive wasn’t supported. This is changing. I spotted a code change request today with the longest commit log I have […]
