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Chrome OS 87 has been with us for a few weeks at this point and it came along with some pretty sweet upgrades and new features. With every version of Chrome OS, however, there are hidden extras that may or may not make it into production with the initial release, but are in good-enough shape that they are worth trying out. Generally, these hidden features are locked behind experimental feature flags that need to manually be turned on by the user. In many cases, we'd recommend giving them a try, turning them back off, and moving on, but with Chrome OS 87, there are a few of these hidden features that are working so well that we've all been using them for weeks without issue. And these are pretty great new features that deserve a try. Let's get into what they are and how you can give them a shot today.
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chrome os 87 is out and available for
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pretty much all chromebook users and
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we've done a video
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already about some of the notable
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features that came along with this
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update we'll link that in the
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description
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but there are some awesome features that
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also came along in chrome os 87 that are
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just hidden behind feature flags so we
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want to show you three
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of the best of those features that you
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can enable right now and start using
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today so first a quick note about
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chrome flags in order to see them if you
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just open a chrome window and type
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chrome
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colon forward slash forward slash flags
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you're gonna be taken to the page and it
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says these are experiments and warning
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you know there's these could mess things
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up these are testing
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features so these are features they're
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pretty close to rolling out or they're
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in testing mode and they're here for you
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to flip on and off if you'd like so
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do know that if you mess around with
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flags sometimes you're going to get you
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know reboots of
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chrome and things are going to crash and
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so you just need to go in and turn off
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those flags if it continues to crash
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chrome
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it will automatically turn that flag off
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for you so you don't have to really
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worry that it's going to completely
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demolish everything but
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do go in here with a little bit of
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warning now that we have that out of the
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way
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let's turn on the three different flags
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we're going to be talking about today so
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the first one is
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holding space you're going to just type
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holding space up here i'm just going to
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type holding
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and you see quick access to screenshots
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downloads and files
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and it does say test on here again this
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is not quite ready for
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rollout but it feels like it's really
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close so i'm going to go ahead and
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enable that
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immediately you're going to see it pop
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up here to restart you don't have to
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restart yet if you're going to do a few
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of them
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so let's do the next one we're going to
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do which is global media control someone
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type global
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and you'll see them right here global
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media controls for chrome os
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i'm going to enable that one as well i
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don't care for this modern ui
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it just changes the way that your music
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looks and stuff like that i i don't like
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it you can flip that one on too if you
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want to try it out and see
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see what you think about it and the
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final flag we're going to turn on is tab
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search so i'm going to
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search for tab search and you see it
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right here enable tab search i'm going
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to turn that one on as well
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and this is a feature that they are
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saying is going to roll out sometime
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with 87 we're not really sure when
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that's going to happen
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but this one is so close to being ready
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but it's still behind the flag for now
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until they're ready to roll it out so
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once you've got
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the flags that you want to try out
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already and turned on you just go down
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here and hit this restart button
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you're going to go black screen for just
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a second and then chrome is going to
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come back do note that when you do this
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when you go through this process
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if you've got a bunch of tabs open and a
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bunch of stuff running it's going to
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kill all those things
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a lot of times it'll come back up and
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say hey chrome quit unexpectedly would
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you like to restart
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you can hit that and restore everything
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that you had but that's not always going
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to work so make sure if you're if you're
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messing around with flags you know close
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out the stuff you need to close out
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before you go flipping
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things on and things off and restarting
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chrome and just hoping that things are
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going to come back the way they should
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so let's start with tab search and
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this does exactly what you think it does
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by the title of it and we've talked
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about it quite a bit on the website
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there have been videos done about it
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it's been in the works for quite some
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time but
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i'll show you really quickly we'll go to
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chrome unboxed here
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we'll go to say engadget oops and gadget
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there
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and we'll say the verge here
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and we'll do youtube
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and then i'm just going to open up a ton
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more tabs
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because here's what tab search is for
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it's not for people like me that only
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have like a few tabs open
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it's for people that end up having tabs
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that look like this at the top now
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imagine all these little icons up here
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and it's
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it can just be overwhelming to know what
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you're looking at well tab search you
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hit this down arrow here
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now it's going to show me all the tabs
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obviously they all look like new tabs
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because that's mostly what i have open
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but the minute i start typing youtube
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boom
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there's my youtube tab go right to it no
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big deal
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uh same thing if i wanted where did i
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put the verge oh there it is boom click
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that
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and we're here so it's it's a simple uh
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addition and for people that use tons
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and tons of tabs
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i think it's gonna be another one of
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those helpful things that most people
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are just gonna get used to having
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at their disposal at all times and again
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it's really close to rolling out
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just flip this flag if you'd like to
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give it a try all right so we're going
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to knock all hose tabs out of there
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because frankly all those tabs just
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gives me a bit of anxiety
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and we're going to look at the global
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media controls now now global media
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controls have been part of
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chrome for windows and mac and linux
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for a couple versions now so that just
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means you have media player button up at
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the top
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and you kind of got this nice little
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media player well chrome os and chrome
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are way more tightly intertwined than
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chrome and windows or chrome and mac os
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so that being the case they kind of had
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to rethink the way that they did global
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media controls on a chromebook and so
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now we're kind of seeing the finished
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product here so i'm going to go to
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youtube real quick and just start one of
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our videos let me make sure i
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muted there we go i'll start this latest
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video here and as that video is playing
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you now can go down to the media
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controls at the bottom it has its own
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little section down here by your tray
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open it up and boom you see your global
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media controls and even if this is
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minimized in the background you see that
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this is playing you have some play pause
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forward back
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i can click this and expand uh the media
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that i'm seeing and so the same thing
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would work with youtube music or spotify
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or something like that
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but it takes it away from here which is
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the most important part so instead of
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stacking a media player on top of this
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already kind of cramped area it gets it
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down there off of that in its own
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section i love this change i can't wait
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till this rolls out and stable and
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everybody just has access to this
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additionally you can hit this pin button
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up here where
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it's going to unpin it from the taskbar
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uh but it's actually going to put it
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back into your
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your main system tray here and you can
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see kind of this minimized version
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if i click on it i get a larger version
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that kind of just stays down here again
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either one of these is better than it's
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stacking up here with your notifications
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and getting in the way but
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i will say i completely prefer uh the
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ability to keep this thing
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out of your your main tray area out of
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your notifications it's in its own
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little spot down here at the bottom
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and it just doesn't take up the valuable
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real estate you have here finally we
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have the new holding space which again
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is another icon that appears down here
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on
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the shelf and if you click it you get a
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couple things so you have pinned items
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and then you have your downloads a
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shortcut to your downloads folder and
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then you have just your
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last couple items that you've dealt with
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so say you download a
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picture from the internet or you've just
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downloaded an attachment from an email
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whatever
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you just need access to that thing
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really quickly to go drag it or take it
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somewhere do something with it
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well the benefit here is this stuff uh
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lives in that tray for just a little bit
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and so i can open this up and since i
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can view uh
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pngs for instance in chrome i can just
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drag this out
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boom and open in chrome we've used it
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with gravity be able to drag
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a file out and just drag it into gravity
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and start editing it's nice to just have
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these quick access files
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there's not a ton that build up here so
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what you want to do is if
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i need to keep this file up between
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multiple applications i can actually
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click this pin
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and boom it goes up here in my pin
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section and no matter how many new
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things i download that
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take the place of these items down here
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i can make sure that it stays up here
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and
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ultimately if i lose track of where it
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is i've got that shortcut i can boom hit
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this
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open my downloads folder and find what
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it is that i was looking for the other
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nice part about this is any of these
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items can be right clicked
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and you can actually copy them from here
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too so it's not just about dragging
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stuff you can go right to where it's
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location in the folder and again you can
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unpin it or pin it from this nice little
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pop-up menu but that's about all we're
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going to cover today
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these are just three really big feature
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editions that are technically in chrome
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os 87 that we wanted to show you hey
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just flipping a flag and boom you can
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actually start using these things today
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some of them are going to show up down
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the road just with an update
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and some of them will probably be held
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off until chrome os 88 honestly but it's
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really cool that these feature flags are
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here and that if you want to get used to
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using these new things that are just
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going to be a part of chrome os in the
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future
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you can go ahead and get started doing
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it today but guys that's it for this one
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