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Origin trial: WebAuthn immediate mediation for frictionless sign-in
WebAuthn immediate mediation streamlines sign-in by instantly using available credentials and gracefully falling back when none are found.
- Identity
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 19, 2025
What's New in Web UI: I/O 2025 Recap
A recap of what we announced in the web UI space at I/O this year.
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- Chrome
August 14, 2025
Native UI Automation for Windows in Chromium
From Chrome 138, Chromium-based browsers on Windows enable native UI Automation (UIA) support by default.
- Blog
- Chrome
August 14, 2025
Chrome 140 beta
Discover the features that are coming to Chrome in the latest beta release.
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 6, 2025
New in Chrome 139
Squircles and custom functions come to CSS, and on-device speech recognition to the Web Speech API.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
August 5, 2025
New Soft Navigations origin trial
New Soft Navigations origin trial launching to help measure Core Web Vitals for Single Page Applications (SPAs)
- Blog
- Chrome
July 31, 2025
Extended lifetime shared workers origin trial
Extended lifetime shared workers origin trial
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
July 31, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 139)
3D texture support for BC and ASTC compressed formats, new "core-features-and-limits" feature, origin trial for WebGPU compatibility mode, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
July 30, 2025
Brick by brick: Help us build CSS Masonry
Help test the proposed masonry syntax in Chromium.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
July 23, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 139
A more reliable and productive Chrome DevTools, support for arbitrary image upload in AI assistance for styling, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
July 22, 2025
Join the Prompt API origin trial
Participate in the Prompt API origin trial to test multimodal inputs for Gemini Nano on your websites and web applications.
- Blog
- Chrome
July 21, 2025
Use Chrome DevTools Performance panel to profile Angular apps
Chrome DevTools and Angular collaborated to integrate Angular runtime data directly into the Performance panel, helping pinpoint performance bottlenecks.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
July 14, 2025
CSS conditionals with the new if() function
Learn about the new CSS if function, which enables a cleaner developer interface for dynamic styles like style queries and media queries.
- Blog
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
July 1, 2025
June 25, 2025
New in Chrome 138
Several new CSS functions, and built-in AI APIs for summarizing, translating, and detecting language.
- Blog
- Chrome
June 24, 2025
Update your extensions ahead of upcoming bookmark sync changes
Learn about upcoming changes to bookmarks sync that impact extensions.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome Extensions
June 17, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 138)
Shorthand for using GPUBuffer as a binding resource, size requirement changes for buffers mapped at creation, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
June 17, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 138
Discover preconnected origins or candidates and server response and redirection times in performance insights, emulate geolocation accuracy in Sensors, debug complex CSS variables, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
June 17, 2025
HTML spec change: escaping < and > in attributes
What you need to know about this change to how attributes are escaped.
- Blog
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Chrome
June 12, 2025
June 11, 2025
New permission prompt for Local Network Access
Learn about the new permission prompt for sites that connect to local networks.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
June 9, 2025
Support foldable devices with the Viewport Segments API
The Viewport Segments API has shipped with minor changes to the origin trial covered in this blog post.
- Blog
- Chrome
June 9, 2025
What's happening in Chrome Extensions, June 2025
An overview of the recent changes in Chrome Extensions, plus exciting upcoming extensions features developers can look forward to.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome Extensions
June 6, 2025
Enabling chrome.userScripts in Chrome Extensions is changing
We are making a series of changes to the chrome.userScripts API.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Chrome Extensions
May 29, 2025
May 28, 2025
New in Chrome 137
CSS reading-flow and reading-order, the if() function, JavaScript Promise Integration with WebAssembly and plenty more.
- Blog
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
May 27, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 137)
Use texture view for externalTexture binding, buffers copy without specifying offsets and size, WGSL workgroupUniformLoad using pointer to atomic, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
May 26, 2025
Watch our AI talks at I/O 2025
At Google I/O 2025, we shared what we've been working on, the future of AI on the web, and demonstrated how our partners are making use of client-side AI.
- Blog
- Chrome
May 22, 2025
Enhancing Gemini Nano: delivering higher quality summaries with LoRA
By fine-tuning Gemini Nano with LoRA, we enhanced the experience and output quality of the Summarizer API.
- Blog
- Chrome
May 21, 2025
Reshaping user authentication and identity verification
Discover how Chrome is making sign-in simpler and safer with new tools for passwords, passkeys, and identity on the web.
- Identity
- Blog
- Google I/O
- JavaScript
- Passkeys
- Chrome
May 20, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 137
Use Gemini to modify and save CSS, learn about performance insights, annotate performance findings, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
May 20, 2025
10 updates from Google I/O 2025: CSS carousels, AI-powered DevTools, Prompt API with multimodal capabilities, and more
Discover exciting features from the Google I/O Developer Keynote and sessions.
- Blog
- Chrome
May 20, 2025
AI APIs are in stable and origin trials, with new Early Preview Program APIs
Discover which APIs are available for use in Chrome stable, origin trials, and in the EPP.
- Blog
- Chrome
May 20, 2025
Enhancements to the proposed <permission> element
The proposed permission HTML element is no longer void and also has support for icons.
- HTML
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Chrome
May 12, 2025
Automatically create passkeys in Google Password Manager on Chrome desktop
Automatically create a passkey for password users.
- Identity
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Passkeys
May 9, 2025
Verified uploads in the Chrome Web Store
You can now opt-in to requiring future uploads to the Chrome Web Store to be signed with a trusted private key.
- Blog
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
May 7, 2025
May 1, 2025
Use CSS reading-flow for logical sequential focus navigation
Learn how to use the new reading-flow and reading-order properties in Chrome 137.
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- Chrome
May 1, 2025
Document Isolation Policy: Enable powerful web features with ease
By enabling crossOriginIsolation, Document Isolation Policy unlocks access to powerful web functionalities like SharedArrayBuffers or WebAssembly threads.
- Blog
- Chrome
May 1, 2025
Origin trial: Cross-device Digital Credentials API now in Chrome desktop
Use the cross-device capabilities of the Digital Credentials API to present digital credentials across devices.
- Identity
- Blog
- Chrome
April 30, 2025
How to style console logs in Chrome DevTools: Color and more!
How to style console logs in Chrome DevTools: Color and more!
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
April 30, 2025
New in Chrome 136
RegExp.escape, partitioned visited links, passkey upgrades with WebAuthn conditional create and plenty more.
- Blog
- Chrome
April 29, 2025
Lighthouse is moving to performance insight audits
Lighthouse is moving to performance insight audits
- Blog
- Chrome
April 28, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 136
New insights and on-click persistent item highlighting in the Performance panel, cookie filter in 'Privacy and security', and more.
- New in Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
April 24, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 136)
GPUAdapterInfo isFallbackAdapter attribute, shader compilation time improvements on D3D12, save and copy canvas images, lift compatibility mode restrictions, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
April 23, 2025
Origin trial: Device Bound Session Credentials in Chrome
Learn about the Device Bound Session Credentials Origin Trial in Chrome and how it can help protect user sessions from cookie theft.
- Identity
- Blog
- Chrome
April 22, 2025
Use shape() for responsive clipping
Learn how to create responsive clipping paths with CSS.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
April 8, 2025
More accurate DevTools performance debugging using real-world data
Learn about new DevTools features like CPU throttling calibration to help you base your performance debugging decisions on data from the real world
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
April 4, 2025
April 3, 2025
Insights sidebar in the DevTools Performance panel
Learn about the new performance insights, the power of Lighthouse directly in the DevTools Performance panel.
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
April 2, 2025
Making :visited more private
How Chrome now prevents privacy leaks that use visited links.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
April 2, 2025
New in Chrome 135
CSS carousels, the command and commandfor attributes, the CSS shape() function and plenty more.
- Blog
- HTML
- Chrome
April 1, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 135)
Allow creating pipeline layout with null bind group layout, allow viewports to extend past the render targets bounds, easier access to the experimental compatibility mode on Android, remove maxInterStageShaderComponents limit, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
March 26, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 135
Various Performance panel improvements, redesigned empty states for various panels, accessibility tree view in Elements.
- New in Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
March 25, 2025
The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- Chrome
March 24, 2025
Carousels with CSS
Support scroll experiences with navigation buttons and markers with just a few lines of CSS.
- CSS
- Chrome
March 20, 2025
Improved navigation and filtering in the DevTools Performance panel
DevTools Performance panel updates make it easier to navigate within and filter traces.
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
March 19, 2025
Memory safety for web fonts
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
- Blog
- Chrome
March 19, 2025
Shape the future of the web with GSoC and Chromium
Find out how you can participate in Google Summer of Code with Chromium.
- Blog
- Chrome
March 18, 2025
Changes to remote debugging switches to improve security
Announcing changes to the behavior of --remote-debugging-port and --remote-debugging-pipe.
- Blog
- Chrome
March 17, 2025
New in Chrome Q1 2025: CSS text-box, file system access for Android, Baseline updates and more!
Learn about the enhancements in Chrome 132-134, such as CSS text box control for vertical spacing, the File System Access API now on Android and WebView, state preserving way to move a DOM element, light dismiss comes to dialog, and more!
- New in Chrome
- Blog
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Chrome
March 11, 2025
Chrome Web Store policy updates: Strengthening our policies on affiliate programs in Chrome Extensions
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the extension ecosystem, we are updating our Affiliate Ads Policy.
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
March 11, 2025
Introducing command and commandfor
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Chrome
March 7, 2025
Use scheduler.yield() to break up long tasks
scheduler.yield() is a new API for ergonomically splitting up long tasks and getting prioritized continuation of execution.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
March 6, 2025
Delaying the shipping of CSS @function from Chrome 136 to 139
The Chrome team responds to concerns from the community.
- CSS
- Chrome
March 6, 2025
March 5, 2025
Unlock exciting use cases with the Document Picture-in-Picture API
Discover how Document Picture-in-Picture enhanced an online learning experience.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
March 4, 2025
New in Chrome 134
Chrome 134 is rolling out now! It includes light-dismiss functionality for dialogs, and plenty more to discover.
- New in Chrome
- Blog
- Chrome
March 4, 2025
Cancel review in the Chrome Web Store developer dashboard
You can now stop the review process for an item that's pending review.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome Extensions
March 3, 2025
Prepare for Chrome on Android going edge-to-edge
Chrome on Android is going edge-to-edge from Chrome 135.
- Chrome
February 28, 2025
Advance network analysis with Chrome DevTools
Advance network analysis with Chrome DevTools.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
February 27, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 134)
Improve machine-learning workloads with subgroups, shader compilation time improvements on D3D12, remove float filterable texture types support as blendable, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- Chrome
February 26, 2025
Popover = hint
Discover the new mode for popover that simplifies tooltips and other floating elements.
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Chrome
February 26, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 134
Privacy and security panel, calibrated CPU throttling, first- and third-party highlighting in Performance, new insights, and more.
- New in Chrome
- JavaScript
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
February 21, 2025
Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
The Edge team added support for respecting the Windows ClearType Tuner values in Chromium directly, resulting in better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows.
- Blog
- Chrome
February 12, 2025
LCP image subparts and RTT now available in CrUX
Learn about the change to the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX changes) in the February 2025 release including LCP image subparts, LCP resource types, and RTT.
- Chrome
February 11, 2025
Enter picture-in-picture automatically when playing media
Chrome allows web apps playing media to automatically enter picture-in-picture.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
February 5, 2025
February 5, 2025
New in Chrome 133
Chrome 133 is rolling out now! There's some exciting new CSS features and plenty more to discover.
- New in Chrome
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- Chrome
February 4, 2025
Deepen user engagement with App-specific history in Chrome Custom Tabs
Introducing app specific history for Chrome Custom Tabs for Android
- Blog
- Chrome
January 31, 2025
Improve your web-based sign-in flow with Auth Tab for Android
Improve web-based authentication with Auth Tab for Android
- Blog
- Chrome
January 31, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 133
Persistent AI chat history, better navigation, ignore listing, and stack traces in Performance, new 'What's new' panel, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
January 30, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 133)
Additional unorm8x4-bgra and 1-component vertex formats, allow unknown limits to be requested with undefined value, WGSL alignment rules changes, WGSL performance gains with discard, and much more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
January 29, 2025
What's happening in Chrome Extensions, January 2025
An overview of the recent changes in Chrome Extensions, plus exciting upcoming extensions features developers can look forward to.
- Blog
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
January 29, 2025
Chrome Web Store policy updates: ensuring clarity and consistency for developers
We're announcing a series of policy updates designed to provide clarity and consistency across our platform.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome Extensions
January 22, 2025
Simplifying WebAuthn feature detection for passkeys
Discover how to detect WebAuthn capabilities with `getClientCapabilities()` and tailor authentication workflows for your users.
- Identity
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
- Passkeys
January 21, 2025
Freezing on Energy Saver
From Chrome 133, eligible CPU-intensive background tabs will be frozen when Energy Saver mode is active.
- Blog
- Chrome
January 20, 2025
Passkeys on Google Password Manager are now available on iOS
Chrome on iOS 17 or later can now create, sync and authenticate with passkeys in Google Password Manager (GPM). This makes passkeys on GPM available everywhere Chrome is.
- Identity
- Blog
- Passkeys
- Chrome
January 16, 2025
January 15, 2025
CSS attr() gets an upgrade
You can now use attr() with any CSS property–including custom properties–and it can parse values into data types other than strings.
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025
How we introduced Gemini to Chrome DevTools
Learn about fun and exciting use-cases of the new AI assistance panel in DevTools
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
January 14, 2025
New in Chrome 132
Chrome 132 is rolling out now! The Dialog element gets a ToggleEvent, support for element level video sharing, and the File System Access API supports Android and WebViews.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- JavaScript
- Chrome
January 14, 2025
CSS text-box-trim
Take back space from above and below your text content; achieve optical balance.
- CSS
- Chrome
January 14, 2025
Winners of the Built-in AI Challenge
Discover the winning apps and extensions from the Built-in AI Challenge, where we invited you to reimagine what's possible with Gemini Nano in Chrome.
- Blog
- Chrome
January 13, 2025
Support for the Web Vitals extension has ended
The merger of the Web Vitals extension and DevTools is complete and support for the extension has ended.
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
January 13, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 132)
Texture view usage, 32-bit float textures blending, GPUDevice adapterInfo attribute, configuring canvas context with invalid format throw JavaScript error, filtering sampler restrictions on textures, extended subgroups experimentation, improving developer experience, experimental support for 16-bit normalized texture formats, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
January 8, 2025
Autofill in action: real-world insights
A Chrome study shows that autofill users fill forms faster, with lower abandonment rates.
- Identity
- Blog
- Chrome
December 17, 2024
Findings from the customizable select request for developer feedback form
Thank you for the time you shared with us, providing feedback, reviewing details and helping shape standards.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
December 16, 2024
Chrome's 2024 recap for devs: Re-imagining the web with AI in DevTools, built-in Gemini, and new UI capabilities
Check out Chrome for Developers' 2024 year-end roundup of the latest web features, capabilities, and tools.
- Blog
- Video
- Chrome
December 13, 2024
Record and analyze a performance trace with DevTools
Record and analyze a performance trace with DevTools.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
December 5, 2024
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 132
Debug network requests, source files, and performance traces with Gemini, view AI chat history, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
December 5, 2024
CSS Wrapped 2024
Join the Chrome DevRel team and a skateboarding Chrome Dino on a journey through the latest CSS launched for Chrome and the web platform in 2024.
- Blog
- CSS
December 5, 2024
Deprecation of the Performance Insights panel
The experimental Performance Insights Panel will be removed in January 2025, replaced by new insights within the Performance panel itself.
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
November 26, 2024
Video accessibility wins the Gemini API Developer Competition web award
We've selected ViddyScribe for the Gemini API Developer Competition web award. They exemplified how Gemini can help make videos on the web more accessible by generating audio descriptions for any video.
- Chrome
November 21, 2024
What's next for WebGPU
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
- WebGpu
- Chrome
November 21, 2024
Prepare your extension as we begin testing a new extensions menu
How to prepare your extension for the new extensions menu.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
November 19, 2024
Annotate traces directly in the Performance panel
Learn how to make performance traces more understandable with the new annotations features in DevTools
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
November 13, 2024
November 13, 2024
Join the Translator API origin trial
Live translate text in the browser using local AI models. Now, users can contribute in their first language.
- Blog
- Chrome
November 13, 2024
Signal API for passkeys on Chrome desktop
Introducing Signal API for passkeys on Chrome desktop
- Identity
- Blog
- Passkeys
- Chrome
November 13, 2024
New in Chrome 131
Chrome 131 is rolling out now! More CSS styling for the details element, easier print layout with page margin boxes, and there is plenty more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- CSS
- Chrome
November 12, 2024
Join the Summarizer API origin trial
Participate in the origin trial to help users distill lengthy articles, complex documents, or even lively chat conversations into concise and insightful summaries.
- Blog
- Chrome
November 12, 2024
Join the Prompt API for Chrome Extensions origin trial
Participate in the Prompt API for Chrome Extensions origin trial and access Gemini Nano in Chrome.
- Blog
- Chrome
November 12, 2024
More options for styling <details>
You can now set the display type and also style the container for the part that expands and collapses using the new ::details-content pseudo-element.
- Blog
- CSS
- HTML
November 6, 2024
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 131)
Clip distances in WGSL, GPUCanvasContext getConfiguration(), point and line primitives must not have depth bias, inclusive scan built-in functions for subgroups, experimental support for multi-draw indirect, shader module compilation option strict math, remove GPUAdapter requestAdapterInfo(), and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
November 6, 2024
Help your users sign-in smoothly with seamless credential sharing
Seamless credential sharing lets you securely signal to password managers that your users can sign in using the same credentials across your Android app and website.
- Chrome
November 4, 2024
Monitor live Core Web Vitals metrics in the Performance panel
Monitor live Core Web Vitals metrics in the Performance panel.
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
October 31, 2024
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 131
Debug CSS with Gemini, annotate findings and get insights in the Performance panel, spot excessive layout shifts and non-composited animations, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
October 30, 2024
Add content to the margins of web pages when printed using CSS
Create custom headers and footers when printing webpages.
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
October 30, 2024
Removing --headless=old from Chrome
Chrome 132 no longer includes the old Headless mode. Migrate to chrome-headless-shell or the new Headless mode.
- Blog
- Chrome
October 23, 2024
New scroll badge in DevTools: Find scrollable elements faster
Learn how DevTools' new scroll badge simplifies debugging scrollable elements (and how we built it!).
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
October 22, 2024
5 Cool Things To Do with DevTools AI Assistance
Learn about fun and exciting use-cases of the new AI assistance panel in DevTools
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
October 21, 2024
Chrome 131 beta
Discover the features that are coming to Chrome with the latest beta.
- Release notes
- Chrome
October 16, 2024
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 130)
Dual source blending, shader compilation time improvements on Metal, deprecation of GPUAdapter requestAdapterInfo(), and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- C++
- Chrome
October 15, 2024
New in Chrome 130
Chrome 130 is rolling out now! Document picture in picture gives you more control over picture in picture windows, CSS Nested declarations fix some tricky edge cases, and you can specify how decorations on elements split across multiple lines behave. Pete LePage has all the details about what's new for developers in Chrome 130.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Chrome
October 15, 2024
What's happening in Chrome Extensions, October 2024
An overview of the recent changes in Chrome Extensions, plus exciting upcoming extensions features developers can look forward to.
- Blog
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
October 11, 2024
The box-decoration-break property in Chrome 130
Chrome 130 includes full, unprefixed box-decoration-break support.
- CSS
- Chrome
October 11, 2024
October 9, 2024
Translation API available for early preview
The Translation API is now available for built-in AI Early Preview Program participants.
- Blog
- Chrome
October 8, 2024
Inheritance changes for CSS selection styling
A change to CSS highlight inheritance is coming in Chrome 134.
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- Chrome
October 8, 2024
Catch prediction in Chrome DevTools: Why it's hard and how to make it better
Learn how the DevTools debugger predicts whether an exception is caught.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
October 2, 2024
Join the Google Chrome Built-in AI Challenge
We're launching the Built-in AI Challenge, where we invite you to reimagine what's possible with Gemini Nano in Chrome.
- Blog
- Chrome
October 1, 2024
Improving the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard mobile experience
We're excited to launch a set of UI changes making the Chrome Web Store Developer Dashboard more responsive and mobile-friendly. We hope this gives you a more convenient and accessible experience when monitoring store listing performance, making
- Blog
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
September 30, 2024
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 130
Recommendations for live metrics and breadcrumbs you can navigate in the Performance panel, network filters reimagined, sanitized HAR exports, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- CSS
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
September 30, 2024
Caching Demystified: Inspect, Clear, and Disable Caches
Inspect and troubleshoot cache with DevTools.
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
September 25, 2024
Sign up for the Language Detection API origin trial
The Language Detection API is now available in a Chrome origin trial.
- Blog
- Workbox
September 24, 2024
The Web Vitals extension, now in DevTools
The Web Vitals extension will merge with the Performance panel of Chrome DevTools, ending standalone support in January 2025.
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
September 24, 2024
Feedback needed: How should we define CSS masonry?
A comparison of the two proposed masonry specifications.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
September 19, 2024
Writer and rewriter APIs available for early preview
EPP participants can now prototype with write and rewrite APIs in Chrome.
- Blog
- Chrome
September 19, 2024
Chrome to sync passkeys on Google Password Manager between desktop and Android
Chrome on desktop will soon be able to create passkeys in Google Password Manager (GPM) and synchronize them across those platforms in addition to Android.
- Identity
- Chrome
- Passkeys
September 19, 2024
Chrome 130 beta
Test your site with the features and changes in the latest Chrome beta.
- Release notes
- Chrome
September 18, 2024
New in Chrome 129
Chrome 129 is rolling out now! You can yield in long tasks - to improve performance, you can animate elements with intrinsic sizes, there are some changes to anchor positioning syntax, and there's plenty more. Pete LePage has all the details about what's new for developers in Chrome 129.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Chrome
September 17, 2024
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 129)
HDR support with canvas tone mapping mode, expanded subgroups support, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- C++
- JavaScript
- Chrome
September 17, 2024
Monitor your local and real-user Core Web Vitals performance in DevTools
The Performance panel in Chrome DevTools features a new way to monitor your local Core Web Vitals performance and compare it against real-user data from the field.
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
September 17, 2024
Chrome Experiment: Process sharing
The Process sharing experiment and its impact Chrome DevTools' developer experience.
- Blog
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
September 17, 2024
Bluetooth RFCOMM updates in Web Serial
Learn how to detect when a Bluetooth RFCOMM serial port is available with Web Serial.
- JavaScript
- Chrome
September 16, 2024
Freeze screen & inspect disappearing elements
Freeze elements in the DOM so that you can inspect them with DevTools.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
September 12, 2024
Request for developer feedback: customizable select
An early look at the new customizable select feature.
- Blog
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
September 12, 2024
The Keyboard Lock and the Pointer Lock APIs require permission from Chrome 131
The Keyboard Lock API lets developers provide an immersive, full screen experience for a variety of use cases, including interactive websites, games, and remote desktop or application streaming. It does so by enabling websites to use all available
- JavaScript
- Chrome
September 10, 2024
Anchor positioning syntax changes
Changes related to the anchor positioning API you should be aware of.
- Blog
- Chrome
September 4, 2024
Introducing the Digital Credentials API origin trial
An origin trial for the Digital Credentials API is starting from Chrome 128. Digital Credentials API is a new web platform API that allows websites to selectively request verifiable information about the user through digital credentials such as a driver's license or a national identification card stored in a digital wallet.
- JavaScript
- Chrome
September 4, 2024
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 129
Search requests in Performance > Network, use test data in address forms with Autofill, export to Puppeteer for Firefox in the Recorder panel, spot performance issues at a glance with observations in the Performance panel, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
September 2, 2024
Introducing hints, Related Origin Requests and JSON serialization for WebAuthn in Chrome
WebAuthn on Chrome can now use hints, Related Origin Requests and JSON serialization
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 30, 2024
What's missing from HTML and CSS?
Do you agree with the CSS Day attendees about what should be added to the web?
- Chrome
August 28, 2024
Language detection API available for early preview
EPP participants can now prototype with a language detection API in Chrome.
- Blog
- Chrome
August 27, 2024
Chrome 129 beta
Get a preview of the next Chrome release with this post detailing the features in the current beta.
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 22, 2024
Improving the performance of Chromium accessibility
A post from Ahmed Elwasefi, sharing how he became a Chromium contributor through the Google Summer of Code.
- A11y
- Blog
- Chrome
August 20, 2024
New in Chrome 128
Chrome 128 is rolling out now! With improved display for ruby elements with line breaks, Promise.try to start Promise chains easier, PointerEvent interface extended to uniquely identify multiple pens, and there's plenty more, and plenty more. Adriana Jara has all the details about what's new for developers in Chrome 128.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- Chrome
August 20, 2024
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 128)
Experimenting with subgroups, deprecate setting depth bias for lines and points, hide uncaptured error DevTools warning if preventDefault, WGSL interpolate sampling first and either, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 20, 2024
The File System Observer API origin trial
The Chrome team is experimenting with a new File System Observer API that informs developers of changes to the file system.
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 20, 2024
Summarization API available for early preview
EPP participants can now prototype with the summarization API for Gemini Nano in Chrome.
- Blog
- Chrome
August 16, 2024
Scroll Snap Events
Introducing two new JavaScript events: scrollSnapChange and scrollSnapChanging.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 14, 2024
4 ways to capture screenshots with DevTools
Discover 4 unique ways to capture screenshots with DevTools.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
August 9, 2024
WebDriver BiDi production-ready in Firefox, Chrome and Puppeteer
Puppeteer 23 introduces stable support for Firefox 129 and up, offering a unified API for Chrome and Firefox automation, based on WebDriver BiDi.
- Testing
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 7, 2024
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 128
Console insights go live in Europe, enhanced Network track and API to customize tracks in the Performance panel, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
August 7, 2024
Participate in the Chrome built-in AI experiment
An update on built-in AI, the Prompt API, and Chrome's AI plans.
- Blog
- Chrome
August 5, 2024
Passkeys UX updates on Chrome on Android
Chrome on Android now integrates the Credential Manager allowing 3P password managers provide passkeys on Android 14 and later
- Chrome
August 5, 2024
Automation with WebDriver BiDi now available on BrowserStack
BrowserStack introduces WebDriver BiDi support: Enhance your Selenium Grid tests with event-driven automation.
- Testing
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
August 1, 2024
Beyond regular expressions: Enhancing CSS value parsing in Chrome DevTools
Learn how the DevTools team improved how styles are presented in the Styles tab.
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome
- Chrome DevTools
August 1, 2024
Line-breakable <ruby> and CSS ruby-align property
Line-breakable ruby element and CSS ruby-align property
- Blog
- HTML
- Chrome
July 26, 2024
Chrome 128 beta
Get a preview of the next Chrome release with this post detailing the features in the current beta.
- Release notes
- Chrome
July 24, 2024
New in Chrome 127
Chrome 127 is rolling out now! With support for font-size-adjust, user activations propagated in the Document Picture-in-Picture API, keyboard focusable scroll containers and there's plenty more. Adriana Jara has all the details about what's new for developers in Chrome 127.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- CSS
- Chrome
July 23, 2024
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 127)
Experimental support for OpenGL ES on Android, GPUAdapter info attribute, WebAssembly interop improvements, and more.
- WebGpu
- New in Chrome
- Release notes
- JavaScript
- Chrome
July 23, 2024
How Chrome helps users install the apps they value
Chrome's internal user research shows that many people value installing web apps. There are many benefits such as: There are multiple ways Chrome and web developers can help, including a new machine learning promotion feature. This post gives an
- Chrome
July 23, 2024
Request for developer feedback on reading-flow and elements with display: contents
Help us to make sure reading-flow meets your needs.
- A11y
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
July 22, 2024
Misconceptions about view transitions
With more and more people starting to look into the View Transition API, it's time to debunk some misconceptions.
- Blog
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Chrome
July 11, 2024
What's happening in Chrome Extensions?
An overview of the recent changes in Chrome Extensions, plus exciting upcoming extension features developers can look forward to.
- Blog
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
July 10, 2024
Chrome Extensions: Important policy updates
This announcement includes a series of updates to Developer Program Policies page designed to encourage the development of high quality products, prevent deceptive behavior, and ensure informed user consent.
- Blog
- Chrome
- Chrome Extensions
July 10, 2024
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 127
CSS anchor positioning in Elements, enhanced 'Never Pause Here' in Sources, new scroll snap event listeners, updated network throttling presets, and more.
- New in Chrome
- Video
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
July 1, 2024