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Google has ramped up Chrome'southward release schedule, with new Chrome versions coming out every four weeks. Chrome 91 stabilizes Linux on Chromebooks, improves Tab Search, powers up Re-create & Paste, and improves Chrome OS in other means.

Linux on Chromebooks Finally Leaves Beta

Linux apps accept been bachelor on select Chromebooks for about three years, but information technology's always been in a "beta." Chrome Bone 91 finally marks Linux on Chromebooks as a stable slice of software.

Non much will exist irresolute with Linux on Chromebooks correct away. Google continues to work on Linux past adding new APIs and better integration with the device hardware. Taking information technology out of beta is a big indicator that Google thinks the feature has come up far enough to exist gear up for everyone.

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Tab Search on Chrome Os Shows Recently Closed Tabs

Recently closed tabs in Tab Search menu.

Chrome OS 87 gained the ability to search through open up tabs. In Chrome Os 91, the feature (which has since come to Chrome on the desktop too) now shows a listing of recently closed tabs as well.

The characteristic is very simple. Yous just click the Tab Search icon and you lot'll see a list of recently airtight tabs nether the list of currently open tabs. It's a handy way to access these pages without going into History.

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Re-create & Paste for Files

Chrome plainly has copy and paste functionality, simply Chrome 91 takes it to another level. You can at present re-create a file from anywhere on your calculator and so paste it into an email.

Previously, if you wanted to attach a file to an email, y'all'd have to drag it from the file explorer and drop it in the e-mail tab. You can now simply Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+Five to paste it.

Currently, the feature is available behind a flag. You can enable it at chrome://flags/#clipboard-filenames.

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Android Gets Mod Course Controls

Chrome 91 on Android is getting some redesigned form controls. These are things like radio buttons, checkboxes, date selectors, and progress bars. The one-time form controls hadn't been updated in a while and were starting to await outdated. Yous tin can come across earlier (left) and afterward (right) images beneath (via XDA-Developers).

Date selecting calendars. Progress bars. Radio buttons and check boxes.

Chrome for Android Tin "Follow" Websites

Google may have killed Google Reader a long time ago, only Chrome 91 for Android is bringing some other RSS reader-style characteristic. A new option in the bill of fare will let you lot to "Follow" a website. Whenever that site published new content, it will prove upwards in the new "Following" section on the New Tab page.

This feature is still in the early on stages and you probably won't see it in Chrome 91 correct away, but it's something to look forwards to—especially if you miss RSS.

Chrome's "Follow" feature.
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What Else Is New?

Chrome 91 is particularly light on user-facing changes, but there's always more going on behind the scenes. Y'all tin can read about many of these changes on Google's developer site and the Chromium weblog. We'll highlight a few changes here:

  • New Origin Trials in this release: Declarative Link Capturing for PWAs, WebTransport, and WebXR Plane Detection API.
  • Suggested File Proper noun and Location: Web apps tin can now suggest the name and location of a file or directory when using the File System Access API.
  • Credential Sharing: Domains that share the same business relationship management backend tin can now be associated together, meaning the Chrome password manager but needs to think one login for all the domains.
  • V8 JavaScript: Chrome 91 incorporates version nine.1 of the V8 JavaScript engine.

Chrome will automatically install the update on your device when information technology's bachelor. To immediately check for and install any available updates, click the menu > Assist > Nearly Google Chrome.

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