A while back, we’ve covered Chrome Canary is testing grid layout for shortcuts on New Tab Page that supports animations with improved drag-n-support, the feature is going to be enabled and set to roll out to all users now. The new layout for NTP shortcuts is available behind a flag till now, Chromium team to […]
Google Chrome automatically discards unused tabs after a certain period of time when the memory is low, the Chromium team is now testing another variation for this. Freezing of eligible tabs that have been backgrounded for 5 minutes, the company offers this for checking behind the “Tab Freeze” flag in Chrome 79 Canary. This feature …
The popular ad-blocking extension, UBlock Origin is still available on Chrome Web Store, but the upcoming version may not be available or extension won’t be updated in future as RC1 build of same has been rejected by Chrome Web Store team by citing it as “bundling unrelated functionality” which users need to accept, they told […]
Both Google and Mozilla noticed a spike in print crashes in Chrome and Firefox browsers with the recent Windows 10 Update, the teams relieved after the Patch Tuesday update resolved the issue. Microsoft recently acknowledged the updates they published for various versions of Windows 10 caused “intermittent issues when printing”. This affected all the applications […]
Google Chrome after offering improved Cookie Controls UI in regular and incognito modes that block tracking cookies by default, now the latest Canary version allows removing all third-party cookies and site data through an option at Chrome://settings/siteData page. Till now Chrome allows us to “Prevent third-party websites from saving and reading cookie data” when you …
Latest chrome Canary updates Reader mode, now allows the user to increase a web page’s text size, change font and theme.
Google Chrome with ad filter built-in automatically blocks ads on sites that violate Better Ad Standards, now Google is ready to implement a solution in Chrome which unloads ads that consume device’s precious resources. The browser will unload “ad iframes that use an egregious amount of CPU or network bandwidth.” After seeing Firefox and Chromium …
Google sometimes uses space on the Chrome browser’s New Tab Page to advertise its products, for instance, you may have seen NTP in Chrome showing a promo about Wifi Speaker in the past with a message ” Meet Google Home Max. Now in Stock” (without any option to close it). The link takes the user …
Google is bringing simpler controls for third-party cookie blocking in Chrome, here is how to enable them in Canary
Google already enables and uses its experimental protocol “QUIC” on its websites in Chrome browser, today, the company has gone ahead and integrated it along with HTTP/3 into the Canary version. Google obsessed with speed, announced in 2013 that they’re experimenting with QUIC, pronounced as Quick and its full form is Quick UDP internet connections. …
Google has added highly experimental Back-Forward Cache feature to Chrome Canary to speed up the navigations in the web browser
Ever since Microsoft started contributing to Chromium, Google Chrome started gaining new features for accessibility, Caret browsing is an example albeit its not available yet and Chrome allows screen readers to request Google for the image descriptions is another e.g. Recently, the Chromium team has bean work to provide the ability to customize “Captions” on …