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Improving Progressive Web App offline support detection - Chrome Developers

 

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While Chrome for iOS hasn’t seen a stable release since November amid an ongoing pause in updates, Google continues work on the beta channel and is currently testing a way to lock Incognito tabs with Face or Touch ID.

Chrome for iOS tests Incognito tab lock with Touch, Face ID - 9to5Google

 

[Siva]

Joggling bazillions of open tabs has always been a hassle in Chrome. In contrast to Firefox or Safari, the Google browser doesn't make the tabstrip scrollable — tabs just keep getting smaller until you can only tell them apart by favicon, and the rightmost tabs will even start disappearing at some point (I've been there, trust me). Google introduced tab groups to mitigate that problem, but the company has also long been wanting to introduce a scrollable tabstrip as an alternative. And in Chrome version 88, you can finally enable the first version of a scrollable tab bar via a flag.

Your 100+ open Chrome tabs will be easier to navigate with this flag

 

[Siva]

Chrome is the most popular mobile browser around the world and millions use it on a daily basis to browse the web and stay up-to-date with the latest information. It already integrates Google's discover feed on the New tab page, which shows articles on topics that you've expressed interest in. In what seems to be a better way to recommend stories and aid content discovery, Google is testing a new "Follow" button in its Chrome Canary build.

Chrome may be getting a Google Reader-like feature

 

[Bapun]

The Stable channel has been updated to 88.0.4324.190 for Windows, and 88.0.4324.192 for Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

 

[Siva]

There aren't many big, high-powered Android tablets coming out these days. But if you're one of the happy few who have one, you could soon see the Chrome browser default to the "Desktop site" version of web browsing. That's the little button in the menu that allows you to force the page to render as if it were on a laptop or desktop PC.

Chrome on Android tablets might start acting like it's actually running on a tablet

 

[Bapun]

Boosting performance while adding features, functionality, and improving security, requires deep and continuous investment. Today’s post is the first in a series this year that will go into more technical detail about Chrome's ongoing efforts around performance. In this release, we’ve dug deep into the core of Chrome, upgrading how we allocate and discard memory, and even how we build, package, and run Chrome, to make today’s Chrome even faster and more memory efficient.

Advanced memory management and more performance improvements in M89

 

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Advanced memory management and more performance improvements in M89

Is it Chrome update or Chromium update ( like for Edge and Brave too)?

 

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Is it Chrome update or Chromium update ( like for Edge and Brave too)?

It's for Google Chrome only.

 

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To turn on Live Caption in Chrome from your desktop, go to Chrome Settings, click on the Advanced section, then go to the Accessibility section. The feature currently supports English and is available globally on the latest release of Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux devices and will be coming soon to ChromeOS. For Android devices, Live Caption is already available for any audio or video on your mobile device.

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Chrome can now caption audio and video