Google has quietly updated the description of one of the Chrome's security features "Enhanced protection" to confirm that it will be powered by AI in a future release.
In a bid to upgrade user experience, the Chrome team is developing an "Organize Tabs" feature, soon to be seen at the top left corner of the browser, adjacent to the tab search function. This new addition would be a natural extension of Tab Groups functionality.
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Google Chrome is set to enhance its user experience on the desktop by adding a "read aloud" function, currently available for testing in the Canary version. While its initial rollout might seem basic, it gets the job done.
Google is testing a new Chrome feature that allows users to add notes on passwords saved in the web browser.
Your online accounts' security is heavily dependent on how strong your passwords are, and if they are too easy, attackers could hack into your account by brute-forcing your password.
Google Chrome will soon let you search through your open web pages to find that missing page lost among a sea of tabs.
With the next update for Chrome, Google is planning to automatically create a tab group if you open multiple tabs with the same domain.
In Google Chrome 75, Google is planning to improve Tab Groups with a new option to collapse grouped tabs. To enable the new collapse option for Tab Groups in Chrome Canary, follow the steps outlined here.
Google is working on providing Chrome users with an option to set the browser to always show full URLs for all websites they visit.
Google is making progress on expanding the control users have over cookies in the Chrome browser with a new flag in Canary that enables an improved interface with more buttons and information.
In 2018, Google Chrome started blocking abusive ad experiences on some sites in North America and Europe. Starting July 9, Google will be expanding Chrome's built-in ad blocking efforts to all other regions and ads will be blocked on sites that have performed abusive behavior.
Google is testing a new feature in the Chrome Canary builds that allows you to change the colors used by various user interface elements of the browser. This allows users to make the browser and its New Tab Page a colorful mess that some may find amusing, while others find painful.
Google Chrome is getting closer to a working Tab Group implementation with the ability to add tabs to groups, headers for each group being displayed, and in the latest Chrome Canary build, groups being saved between browser sessions.
Recently Google added a new experimental feature that displays a small info card when you hover over a tab in Chrome. Similar to Microsoft Edge's tab hover card implementation, Chrome 74 will show a preview image of the associated web site when you hover over its tab.
In Canary build 69 of Chrome, Google added a new experimental feature called Heavy Page Capping that will display an infobar that allows you to stop loading the rest of the resources on a page if it has already downloaded a certain amount of data.
Google engineers have rolled out a new Chrome user interface (UI). Work on the new Refresh UI has been underway since last year, Bleeping Computer has learned.