News & Reviews:   Google Chrome

For those of you who like opening tonnes of tabs and never close them, you'll soon have a default way to manage them. Google has announced that the Tab Groups feature will be coming in the next major Chrome browser update, which is the version 83 update scheduled for next week.

Dark mode theme is pretty much on most popular apps nowadays, as well as on iOS and coming soon on some Android user interface platforms. If you're a Google Chrome mobile user, you'd be glad to know that Google is actually working on this for the mobile app version, especially for the Google Search results page. 

New features are added to Google Chrome all the time but the one that's revealed recently seems more interesting than most. According to folks at Android Police, Google is testing out a new picture-in-picture mode for Chrome that is connected to the new media controls.

Interested in Google Stadia but don't have a Pixel smartphone? That's no longer an issue as Google has begun to roll out the service to other third-party Android devices. Starting 20 February 2020, Stadia will work on selected Samsung, ASUS, and Razer smartphones.

It's been a while since we've heard anything about Microsoft Edge but it looks like the browser is ready for a revival. Microsoft has been spending most of last year overhauling Edge to the open-source Chromium and has finally made the new version available for download.

Companies who track their numbers via web cookies might take issue with Google's latest decision for the Chrome browser. According to Reuters, the company is planning to phase out the use of third-party cookies in Google Chrome, citing it as a way to improve the privacy of users.

The rollout of version 79 for Google Chrome has been halted, due to a bug that's causing deletion of data for certain apps.

Today is a big day for the gaming world as it is the launch day of Google Stadia. The so-called Netflix of gaming offers players to enjoy gaming experience without any console. The games will run through cloud service and you can just play the games using Google Chrome browser on any device.

Since the launch of a system-wide dark mode on both iOS 13 and Android 10, it has brought attention to all the mobile apps developers. After Google Gmail app got updated for the dark mode on Android 10, Twitter has announced the dark mode called “Lights out” to be rolled out to all Android users starting today.

While the Google browser Chrome is popular all over the world, it is resource hungry. It eats memory and battery like a hungry baby, and while Google has promised that they will try and fix this, no big difference is seen as of yet. Microsoft is drilling down the point further with the battery test that they did, comparing major web browsers of today.