Update 6/15/21: Check out our video on what Material You might look like on Chromebooks below! Google recently spoke openly about wanting to further integrate its Assistant into Chrome OS in a more meaningful way, but we still don’t exactly know what that means. It’s only been just over a year since it made its […]
Continue Reading[U: Video] Here’s what Google’s new ‘Material You’ design could look like on Chromebooks
Update 6/15/21: Check out our video for what Material You might look like on Chromebooks below! Ever since Google announced its Material You design principles at this year’s I/O conference a few weeks ago and since the company hinted that the new, custom styling based on your personal preferences would eventually come to Chromebooks, I’ve […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Workspace soon to be available to everyone via an individual subscription
Google’s G Suite rebranding just reached a new level of excitement. After relaunching its educational, nonprofit, and enterprise efforts under the new name, it will soon allow users with standard Google accounts to sign up to its suite of tools for productivity! You heard that correctly – Workspace will now be for everyone, and I […]
Continue ReadingChrome will no longer simplify URLs because it didn’t do much for web security
Google has many experiments in the pipeline that it toys with before releasing them to the public. A recent one was its attempt to hide extended URLs from the browser’s Omnibox in an effort to decrease social engineering schemes (Not its first attempt). Apparently, always showing the full web address can help shoulder surfers more […]
Continue ReadingUbisoft Forward recap – Rainbow Six, Avatar, Riders Republic, and more coming to Stadia
Ubisoft’s 2021 E3 showcase took place this week, and with it, we received tons of news about its Google Stadia lineup! You can watch the full three-hour livestream, but we have the scoop for you here on Chrome Unboxed. From a new first-person action-adventure game set in James Cameron’s Avatar universe (with several sequels planned […]
Continue ReadingYou’ll soon be able to restore Chrome tab groups via browser history and bookmarks
We’ve long since believed that Google’s approach to allowing users to store tab groups for later would be to eventually add them to the new Reading List feature. However, a new Chrome Canary flag discovered by Leopeva64 on Reddit shows that the company is looking to dump your recent tab groups into Chrome’s history instead. […]
Continue ReadingChromebook ‘Everything button’ finds new ways to make the Alt key worthless
Just a few months ago, Google set into motion its plans to make the Search button on Chromebooks – now named the ‘Everything Button‘ – do, well, everything as its name implies. Launcher plus backspace became forward delete, launcher plus clicking the touchpad became right-click, and so on. Essentially, this new favorite caps lock replacement […]
Continue ReadingHow to fix mouse lag on extended displays in Chrome for desktop
Being that I use my Windows 10 desktop for many things related to game development, I have Chrome installed there for browsing the web. Unfortunately, I’d been experiencing mouse lag on my second monitor for months now and couldn’t figure out why no matter why. Whatever I tried, the lag remained. It’s almost worth not […]
Continue ReadingChromecast with Google TV gets Stadia support update, but don’t get too excited yet
An update to the Chromecast with Google TV is rolling out now to users and it provides some pretty useful fixes for the device. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, Google states that advanced video settings will no longer reset after a reboot on some TVs. Additionally, there are some tweaks to Bluetooth […]
Continue ReadingNest Hub and Nest Hub Max now have a built-in keyboard for browsing the web by hand
Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max are receiving a pretty useful update with Cast firmware version 1.54 (gradual rollout). The big difference here is that it brings an updated browser experience complete with a keyboard so that you can manually browse the web when needed. It should be mentioned that using your Nest Hubs by […]
Continue ReadingXbox Game Pass will be available directly from your web browser in just a few weeks
Back in February, we wrote about Xbox Game Pass coming to the web via a public preview. This preview was invite-only for Game Pass Ultimate members. Now, just four months later, the service is opening up to all Ultimate members without needing to be personally sent an email from Microsoft! This means that for just […]
Continue ReadingChromebooks will soon gain the ability to automate dark mode based on a schedule
To reduce eye strain and save battery, Google has long employed a dark mode for Android phones. With the introduction of the same feature for Chrome OS, many early adopters have wondered why the company has yet to allow it to be automatically toggled on or off based on the time of day or night […]
Continue ReadingGoogle, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla band together to make extensions safer
This week, W3C announced that it was launching the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG) in collaboration with several of the largest tech corporations. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are banding together to achieve better standardization of web extensions. This means that extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox will one day be safer and easier to […]
Continue ReadingChrome will soon let you perform a ‘Privacy review’ similar to its ‘Safety check’
First spotted by Dinsan over at Chrome Story, Chrome Canary will soon have a new developer flag for enabling what’s called ‘Privacy Review’. Once toggled, it shows a new subpage in the Chrome settings area that lets you step through each privacy setting provided so that you can stay up to snuff on what’s available […]
Continue ReadingChromebook notifications to be reworked with intelligent grouping and new UI
Chrome OS notifications take a shotgun approach to information delivery. To this day, it’s still using the old school Android-style setup where every single notification card is from an individual source – no grouping, no AI or machine learning implemented to make visually digesting the information easier for the user. Luckily, a new Chromium Repository […]
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