Chrome 77 beta preps new welcome screen, New Tab page customization, more

Chrome 77 beta preps new welcome screen, New Tab page customization, more than

Chrome 77 as well hints at a wider Google Assistant rollout to Chromebooks

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Not long after the launch of Chrome 76, Google is pushing Chrome 77 into beta testing. If you're running the Chrome beta client, y'all can update to version 77 now to attempt and test new features ahead of the official rollout.

Those new features include a new 'welcome feel,' more customization options and potentially Google Assistant on more than Chromebooks.

Google has been working on improving the welcome experience for some time now, and those improvements are finally coming to the beta channel. Start up, the changes get beyond the current single-page welcome screen. Now, the browser invites y'all to "Brand Chrome your own."

The new customization process has users add bookmarks for Google apps like Gmail, YouTube and Maps. Then, Chrome prompts users to set it every bit the default. Finally, the browser asks users to turn on sync to share "bookmarks, passwords and more" beyond Chrome on all your devices.

Along with the improve welcome pages, Chrome too has tools for personalizing the appearance. For now, this includes uploading a groundwork epitome for the New Tab page, customizing shortcuts and the "color theme."

Shortcuts is a grid of website icons below the search bar. Users can choose to get suggested shortcuts based on websites they oftentimes visit or choice shortcuts themselves. Alternatively, you tin can hide shortcuts altogether.

Colour and theme aren't fully bachelor yet, requiring flags to plough on. You'll need to enable the post-obit flags to access the feature in the Chrome 77 beta:

chrome://flags/#ntp-customization-carte-v2
chrome://flags/#chrome-colors-custom-color-picker

With those enabled, yous can pick betwixt twenty preset themes or cull your ain using a colour picker.

Speaking of flags, Google plans to make clean up Chrome flags in version 77. Flags have long served every bit a mode to enable features that are in testing, or otherwise modify Chrome behaviour. Enterprise customers also use flags to configure Chrome. Still, Google says policies are a meliorate way to practice the same. Version 77 will run across the removal of several flags, but the change shouldn't significantly touch on consumers.

On peak of all this, Chrome Bone 77 includes lawmaking that suggests Google Assistant will come up to more Chromebooks. At the moment, it'southward only available on the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate.

Finally, Chrome is working on a new 'Contact Picker API,' which will let users select specific entries in their contact listing and share express details with websites.

You can learn more well-nigh all the meaning changes in the Chrome 77 beta by checking out the Chromium Web log hither.

Source: Chromium Blog Via: 9to5Google