How to Enable and use ‘Chrome Actions’ in Chrome 87 right now

Recently Google has released Chrome 87 with new features and performance and memory improvements. “Chrome Actions” is one such new feature that lets you do things right from the address bar without the need to visit the Privacy and Security Settings. Like Chrome 83, Google has decided to progressively roll out the feature including Tab …

Chrome to Show web pages Performance metrics w/o Web Vitals Extension

Google has released Web Vitals Chrome extension that shows Web Performance metrics for a page in Heads Up Display such as largest contentful paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift. In addition to these, Chrome may natively display Smoothness metric as well on Android and other platforms. As of now, to know how a …

Chrome to Use PartitionAlloc instead of Segment Heap for Memory Savings

Chrome will no longer use Windows Segment Heap going forward. Google has decided to end the experiment as Microsoft informed it won’t offer control over the heap type. Chrome is switching to PartitionAlloc for Chrome as the company felt it” seems to offers the desired memory savings “. Google has noticed significant memory gains with …

The awkward Scroll buttons on Chrome Tab Strip may stay forever

To address Tab overflow issue in Chrome, Google added Grouping Tabs and Scrollable tab bar features. Chrome lets you scroll through extraneous tabs that no longer fit in the tab strip through Scroll buttons. The feature is a welcome addition to Chrome for sure, but the way feature development is progressing currently hints that scroll …

Chrome Global Media Controls UI lets you Control Video Live Captions

Media Hub in Google Chrome is getting better and better to control music. Till now, in addition to offering playback controls, the redesigned Global Media Controls allows us to enter the playing video in Picture-in-Pcture mode and select audio devices connected to play the music. To the latest, Google is offering a switch to toggle …