The latest Google Chrome news — feature rollouts, updates, and announcements from the Chrome browser and Chrome OS ecosystem.
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Search The Hunger Games on Google, click the gold symbol, and you unlock the Quarter Quell Quest: six quests of trivia and puzzles that end in bonus footage from Sunrise on the Reaping.
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A new ChroMenu Search flag puts a search box at the top of Chrome’s redesigned menu, while Chrome 157 reaches Stable with 213 security fixes.
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The #enable-translate-pdf entry appeared in Chrome Canary this week after a Chromium change merged September 8 — a flag for desktop Chrome, not a shipped feature.
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The screenshot tool has been sitting in Chrome’s Media Controls panel for a while — Canary is now actively pointing it out with a Show Me How walkthrough.
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Two new flags spotted in Chrome’s open-source code point to a remote-control transport that lets Glic trigger, continue, or stop automated browsing sessions.
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Two merged commits add a desktop-only “Notebooks” service and a configurable Notebook Home URL, following the same pattern Google used for Gemini in Chrome.
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A code change merged into Chromium’s source tree adds a “Dictation” flag for Windows, Mac, and Linux, hinting ChromeOS’s voice-typing tool could be headed to desktop.
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A new Chromium flag would let desktop Chrome show a QR code in the Profile Menu and History page so you can finish signing in from your phone.
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The fix ships in Chrome 149.0.7827.103, and it only takes effect once you relaunch the browser, so update now even if Chrome looks up to date.
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A new, disabled-by-default flag spotted in Chromium’s source code would let Safe Browsing flag sites it deems suspicious before users browse further.
