Chrome 90 is here, and a number of the fun features you get are all automatic – you don’t have to take any action. Others require you to tweak some settings or adjust the Chrome flags to see them. This is the cat-and-mouse game you find in every version of Chrome, and we’re ready for the hunt.
Before we get into these features though, let’s dig into the quick, automatic changes you’ll find in Chrome 90. The browser comes with a brand new version AV1 encoder This should improve the video quality (and bandwidth) of WebRTC-based video conferencing in your browser. Additionally, Chrome is now HTTPS connections are used by default Whenever you visit a website – something you have probably done already, thanks to extensions HTTPS everywhere (which you should keep using in case you come across a rare website causing Chrome to switch back to HTTP).
And finally you can now Hide Chrome’s Reading List directly from the browser’s user interface instead of having to set a fancy Chrome flag. Type of. You must first activate the reading list via chrome: // flags / # read-later. Once you’ve done that, you can right-click your bookmarks bar to quickly show or hide it.
Of course, Chrome 90 has more features hidden or buried in it. For example, you may want to right-click your address bar and select “Always show full URLs” because the browser will soon only show the domain of the site you are on and not the full URL. For ordinary people this is great; This makes it harder for them to get confused or confused as the domain they are connecting to is much more obvious (compared to a gigantic URL that might not be as easy to spot). However, if you are a power user, you will likely want this full URL.
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If you want a quick link to the latest features of your Chrome browser, enable this flag: chrome: // flags / # chrome-tips-in-main-menu. When you do, you will get a new link below Help> Tips for ChromeThis will take you to a Google website that will tell you a little more about what your browser has been doing recently.
Another fun feature to try out is enabling the following flag: chrome: // flags / # clipboard-filenames. You will now be able to Copy and paste content into websites Use traditional keyboard shortcuts instead of dragging and dropping them onto a site. For example, all you have to do is press Ctrl + V to add a file that you copied from a desktop folder to a Gmail message as an attachment. Goodbye by dragging and dropping, or worse, awkward attachment buttons that force you to look for a file every time. Copy it. Paste it. Email attachments don’t get much easier.
