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  1. Android News

    Google Daydream's web-browsing features now in Chrome

    With the latest Chrome 61 update, VR users can now browse websites and interact with them. Any sites that use WebVR will be compatible as well.
  2. Android News

    Chrome Home starts rolling out with new Chrome 61 update

    While the Chrome Home options were first revealed over a year ago, the new home page interface is finally making its way to Chrome 61. Other changes include a compact translate bar and a new file picker.
  3. Android News

    Google adds split-screen snapping to Chrome OS tablet mode

    Once you enable Developer Mode on your Chromebook and manually turn on the -enable-tablet-splitview flag in the Chome OS Shell, a new split-screen feature becomes available. Once this is done, you can press the overlay button to see all your open windows, and drag them to different sides of the...
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    Chrome on Windows now lets you run multiple release channels side-by-side

    Starting with Windows computers, users will be able to install multiple channels of Chrome on the same machine and run them in parallel with separate user data directories.
  5. Android News

    Chrome's new tab page is looking to improve categorized content on mobile

    Lately, the focus of the new tab page experiment is on Android. Google recently launched Chrome Home and content recommendations. Now, they are improving these content suggestions with categories.
  6. Android News

    Chrome 60 brings several new improvements

    The latest Chrome update for Android brings several new improvements, including a new search widget, blocking vibrating ads, and it improves how Chrome handles payments.
  7. Android News

    Chrome on Android O will get more granular notification controls for websites

    The Chrome Canary test build for Android O has revealed individual site permissions to control notifications for sites in Android O.
  8. Android News

    Chrome plays nicely with your MacBook Pro's Touch Bar

    With the release of Google Chrome 60, the Chrome browser now finally supports the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar.
  9. Android News

    Chrome will completely remove Flash support at the end of 2020

    Thanks to an 80% decrease in use, Google's Chrome browser will stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.
  10. Android News

    Google seems to be preparing to add a "choice window" into Chrome to comply with Russian lawsuit

    A new commit to Chromium seems to indicate that Google is working to add a way for the user to choose which search engine they want set as default within Chrome.
  11. Android News

    Hands-on with Chrome’s new UI has its controls on the bottom

    Chrome Dev has a new UI that puts the toolbar, address bar, and all other controls at the bottom of the screen. We've been seeing this transition lately in a few of Google's apps as it generally makes them easier to use on phones with big displays.
  12. Android News

    Google talks about changes in the new Chrome 60 Beta update

    In version 60 of the Chrome beta channel, Google is making a lot of changes in regards to Paint Timing API, CSS font-display, and Credential Management API improvements. This update also has dozens of other, smaller changes as well as some deprecations and interoperability improvements.
  13. Android News

    Newest Chrome 60 beta features new search widget and more

    The latest Chrome beta has dropped featuring a new search widget, limitations to the vibration API to prevent malicious ads from using the vibration feature of your phone, and a new context menu.
  14. Android News

    DirecTV is dropping support for Safari, will be exclusive to Chrome for the web

    DirecTV has announced they will be dropping support for Safari for those use want to use their service on the web. Instead, the company will only allow those who use Chrome to stream online.
  15. Android News

    Chrome 59 for Android loads pages faster

    A new update for Chrome on Android loads pages much faster thanks to an updated JavaScript engine. Google says pages will load 10-20% faster with this new fix.
  16. Android News

    Google says Chrome will start blocking ads in early 2018

    We've seen reports about Google implementing ad-blocking software into Chrome in the past, and now the company has announced their plans. They will begin blocking ads for an entire website in early 2018 if the website is not compliant with the Better Ads Standards.
  17. Android News

    A former CTO of Mozilla admits that Chrome won

    A Firefox marketing member recently wrote in a blog post that while he works for Mozilla, he uses Chrome every day. So in response, a former CTO of Mozilla says it's okay to admit you use Chrome because Chrome won.
  18. Android News

    Some are seeing a new suggestion bar in Chrome dev for login details

    If you have Chrome's developer branch installed, you may have noticed that there's a new suggestion bar at the bottom of the page (right above the keyboard) when asked to input your username and password.
  19. Android News

    Android O: Chrome home screen shortcuts use adaptive icons

    Chrome allows you to pin web pages to your home screen for easy access on Android, but in Android O these pinned web pages will use whatever favicon is provided by the website instead of creating their own mask.
  20. Android News

    Chrome VR is coming to VR headsets later this year, also working on AR in Chrome too

    Google has been working on putting VR experiences within the Chrome browser for a while, and now they're going to bring that to VR headsets. Not only that, but the company is also making some Java Script and WebGL tools so web developers can build AR content right from the web browser.
  21. Android News

    Chrome is now using the Payment Request API

    In order to make paying for things easier on a smartphone in Chrome, Google recently announced their Payment Request API. This will allow for websites to send an intent to a 3rd-party application that will request the person's payment information.
  22. Android News

    Latest canary build of Chrome OS includes a Night Light feature

    Dark Mode settings are getting popular these days and even Google is experimenting with one for Chrome OS. The latest canary build of Chrome OS has this feature baked in, and should be pushed to the stable branch once the bugs are squashed.
  23. Android News

    Chrome Dev for Android has a new, faster search widget

    The developer branch of Chrome for Android comes with a new search widget that loads faster than the traditional one. So instead of tapping on the regular Google Search widget (that can take seconds to load), this search screen loads up in less than a second.
  24. Android News

    Latest Chrome update lets you read web pages offline

    Back in the beta version of Chrome 57, Google added a way to save a web page so that you could view it later. That feature has now been rolled out to the stable channel for Chrome on Android and they give you two different ways to trigger it.
  25. Android News

    Speed up Chrome on rooted devices with this app

    WonderHowTo has a nifty guide on how to speed up Google Chrome if you have a rooted device. You'll need an app called Kernel Adiutor in order to do it.
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