Chrome 90 may get these two new features

Following recent developments on status bar change in Progressive Web Apps and PDF Presentation mode and landing of Privacy Sandbox, two new features added to Chrome 90 Canary behind flags. Through one, Google wants users to navigate and visit the Chrome features page by selecting the” Tips for Chrome” option in the menu, and through another (Chrome labs menu), the company added the Tab Scrolling feature, for easy enabling in Chrome browser.

Chrome menu with tips option

Enable the “Tips for Chrome” in the Help Submenu of Chrome

  1. Launch Chrome browser
  2. Visit chrome://flags
  3. Search for “Show ‘Tips for Chrome’ in the Help portion of the main menu”
    Show tips for Chrome in Help portion of main menu flag
  4. Click on the drop-down arrow, select “Enabled” and restart the browser

Click on the menu and hover over the Help menu to notice the tips option that takes you to the “Tips & Shortcuts for better browsing” page.

On the above page, you can find information on

  • Creating a tab group, collapsing, customizing, and reorganizing groups
  • Various keyboard shortcuts to get things done quickly in Chrome
  • customizing Chrome-look, creating a new profile, and syncing Chrome across devices
  • Saving Edited PDF forms

Chrome labs menu gains Tab scrolling

Chrome labs menu has got another experimental feature to test in addition to Reading List and  Tab Search – Tab Scrolling,

You can now enable a scrollable tab strip without needing to visit chrome://flags. For that,

  1. Turn on Chrome labs in flags, restart the browser
  2. Click on its toolbar icon, select “Enabled” for Tab Scrolling, and click Restart within the Labs menu.
    Tab Scrolling in Chrome labs menu

This allows scrolling through tabs left and right with arrows when the tab strip is full.

What’s your take on these? Did you find the Labs menu and the new tips option in the Chrome menu useful? Let us know in the comments below.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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