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Google which is planning to deprecate and freeze User Agent String in Chrome on desktop and mobile, has added a flag to freeze UA request header in Canary version. If enabled, Chrome now displays its version number as 75 instead of 81 for User Agent String in chrome://version page on Windows and Android. Third-party tools …
Google has updated Chrome browser’s default Search engines list to include Ecosia search engine along with the existing Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.
Google is currently testing “Voice Assistant Search” in Chrome Canary on Android, which when enabled, Chrome browser to use Google Assistant for Voice Search instead of Android’s built-in voice search function. The chromium team has added the Assistant Voice Search feature flag for now and is planning to enable the functionality in the follow-up CL. …
Google is working to display tab switch suggestions in a dedicated row in Chrome’s Omnibox in Canary on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.
Google tests tabs for Progressive Web Apps in Chrome 81 Canary and here is how you can enable the tab Strip for PWAs.
Google is testing “Sharing Hub” or a Custom Share Sheet for Chrome Canary on Android. The feature is available behind a flag and can be enabled. If you’re not happy with Android share UI that pops up when you tap the share button in menu, you can now check the new Share UI which Chromium …
Tab Previews available under Tab Strip in Classic Edge and Chrome OS now being brought into Chrome on Windows and Linux platforms.
Micrsoft has enabled EdgeHTML/ Impulse scroll animations in Dev and canary builds of Chromium Edge & makes the feature also available in Chrome Canary for testing.
Starting Chrome 79 onwards, you can share the clipboard content copied between computer and android devices, here is how you can do that.
Google Chrome if signed in your Google account already allows sharing tabs between devices, now Chromium team is trying to provide another way to share Pages to Android Chrome, which is via “QR Code “, the feature is available behind a flag in Chrome Canary and can be enabled. The QR code generator integrated into …
The latest Chrome Canary build for Android offers new settings for notifications allowing you to set importance for notifications requests to two new options: “Low” and “Trivial”. As a result, website notifications will appear silently to you without making any noises. We already knew Google’s efforts about make things quieter on notifications front via previously …
For some Chrome users, half of Google search results are replaced by blank window for certain queries, Google is aware of this issue.