News

COMMANDER : Will be toggled on /off using Ctrl+spacebar - it bring up a search facility for many aspects of browser; and type 'N' for a New doc in Drive etc.

01/06/2021 : It will require a flag to be set in v.91.

Pixel Slate: Running 90.0.4430.86 @ 26/04/2021

Tower Cloudready: Running v.89 @ 15/04/2021

Both of these versions of browser [and Windows 10 with v.89.0.4389.90] tried but the flag is not there on any of them yet.

Checked techdows.com and it says “The feature is to be made available in Chrome 91 Canary”

04/03/2021 : Commander - 3rd article

Click here to see a Computer World article “Love Chrome shortcuts? Wait 'til you see this” that follows on from last week’s Chrome Unboxed article.

It’s not widely available yet [unless you install the Developer Channel version] but hopefully it will be coming soon when you will be able to use Ctrl [or Cmd] and your spacebar to pull it up.

03/03/2021 : Commander - 2nd article.

Click here to see a Chrome Unboxed article “Upcoming Chrome Commander could change the way you interact with the Chrome browser” for what might be with us soon.

02/03/2021 : Commander - 1st article

Click here to see an XDA-Developers article “Google Chrome’s Commander feature will surface common commands as you type” - mentions that it is currently only available in Chrome Canary 91.

EXPERIMENTS

07/03/2021 : Experiments List

Click here to read a 9to5Google article called “Google making it much easier to test new Chrome features with ‘Experiments’ list”.

It won’t get released until version 91 but when it does arrive it will make trying out new features a lot clearer and easier.