Chrome OS Made Simple!
My friends from the official Chrome OS support forum tell me that there are a lot of people who complain about the new centered design of Chrome OS shelf. Were you worried about the centered shelf too? Looks like Google is working on something for you. I cannot say yet if they will bring the […]
Update: Looks like the title that I had used in the previous version of this article is being accused of being “clickbait”. It was not my intention. I have changed the title anyway based on your comments here and on Reddit. Here is the most exciting Chrome OS news that you will read today (unless […]
Here is a small design update that Chrome is going to make which I am sure a lot of you here will appreciate. To explain this better, let me tell you how this works as of now. If you copy some text or a URL and right click on the Omnibox (addressbar), you will see […]
Chrome OS launcher has a feature that lets you search for apps from the launcher and install them. This works for apps that you haven’t installed. You see apps in search results, with an option to install them with one click. Crostini, the project that brings Linux apps to Chrome OS, is also getting this […]
It is official. Google’s Chromecast Audio is discontinued, according to this Reddit user who received an official word on this from the support team. Chromecast Audio is one of the first popular Google hardware products. For just $35, it offered a lot to its users who could just plugin this in to any traditional speaker […]
I don’t usually write opinion pieces on Chrome Story. However, this is the second time that I am writing about the possible merger of Chromecast and Google Assistant platforms. I started thinking about this again when I heard the news that Google Home Hub runs Cast platform and not Android Things. Google Home Hub is […]
I have an update to yesterday’s news on Picture in Picture. Let’s say you are watching Netflix on your Android phone. You tap the Home button and Netflix will automatically switch to Picture in Picture mode. You don’t have to go to Netflix player’s settings to do this. This feature is coming to Chrome’s Picture […]
There is a hidden web browser on Google Home Hub. Even better, Home Hub has Chrome built-in! Google Home Hub uses a custom operating system similar to Chromecast. It also comes with a Chrome browser built in. It is not available as an app that you can launch. However, you can access it quite easily. […]
A recent code commit spotted by 9to5Google suggests that Chrome for Android might soon get a “Dark Mode”. I think I have said this before, but again, I am not a big fan of dark modes, but I know for sure that there are a lot of you here among regular readers of Chrome Story. […]
Can you think about watching YouTube without the “Skip Ad” button? We skip ads on YouTube app and while watching YouTube on TV using Chromecast. We skip ads on YouTube while watching videos on Chrome. We cannot however skip ads while watching YouTube or other videos in Chrome’s Picture in Picture mode. That is changing. […]
