The Google Chrome update cycle continues without pause. After going through the Canary, Dev and Beta versions, the stable version of Google Chrome reaches version 93, now available for download through Google Play.
With Google Chrome 93 come important news, although the vast majority of them are hidden behind a Chrome Flag. In Android 12, it will adopt the colors of Material You, in addition to being able to test continuous search, share as notes or log in to web applications on PC with mobile.
Material You on Android 12
Google Chrome 93 is now ready to take advantage of theme and color system built into Android 12, although it is disabled by default. To tint Google Chrome with the system colors, you must activate two flags different, #dynamic-color-android
and #theme-refactor-android
. It is only possible on Android 12, at least for now.
Continuous search
The new interface for Google searches, known as continuous search, continues to be a test once again, at least for the time being. To test it you need to activate the flag #continuous-search
.
The change basically consists of showing a top bar every time you enter a search result of Google. Other search results are displayed in that bar, so you can switch from one to another without having to go back.
Stylized notes
One of the most curious novelties of Google Chrome in recent times is called stylized notes, and consists of a mode of share fragments of text from a website as quotes with different designs. The result is very attractive.
In order to use this experimental function you must activate the Chrome Flag #webnotes-stylize
and restart the browser. Then select a piece of text, choose Share in the menu and then tap Card. There are various designs available.
Login with SMS codes on PC
Google Chrome 93 adds support for the WebOTP API, by which it is possible send the verification code of the mobile to a website that asks for it on a PC, something that until now was only possible if it was an open web on the same mobile.
That is, if you register on a web page on your PC and a verification code is sent to your mobile, you can send it to the web with one tap, without having to copy it. For its operation it is necessary that the same Google account is used on both devices.
Support for multiple screens in web apps
A change focused at the moment for developers is the better multi-screen and multi-window support for web applications, with a new API that developers can start testing.
Other novelties
How could it be otherwise, Google Chrome 93 also includes a lot of bug fixes, internal changes and support for new experiments and standards. Of them, for example, the update of the Javascript V8 engine to version 9.3 or the blocking of HTTP, HTTPS or FTP connections to positions 989 or 990.