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Google Chrome’s best new features

Google updated its venerable browser, and it has a lot of new tricks that should make it a pleasure to use.

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  1. Dyler Turden

    May 25, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    u could have gone to extensions by right clicking an extension icon and it will show manage extension in that menu. no extra hassle needed. also some people dont know yet that u can still reopen closed tab by right clicking an empty space on the tab bar. like left of minimize button etc.

  2. Marian Serra

    May 25, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    What would this old boomer do without CNET?😘

  3. jmr5707

    May 25, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    Quarantine hair🤣😎

  4. Rinesh Andrews

    May 25, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    Thanks alot 😍👍

  5. Noah Zimmerman

    May 25, 2020 at 4:59 pm

    Google Chrome is slower and more of a ram hog than ever. Try Safari, it is much better.

    • Ravi Teja KNTS

      May 25, 2020 at 5:42 pm

      lol….
      seriously….?
      atleast try Microsoft edge, safari feels like bare bones

  6. I Droid

    May 25, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    I open chrome and it take 70% of 4gb ram on my laptop..😒😒

    • Vlad Macovei

      May 25, 2020 at 9:37 pm

      Try the extension “the Great Suspender” if you have many tabs opened it is able to suspend them after a set delay and free the used ram.

    • Benjamin Foster

      May 25, 2020 at 11:10 pm

      On an 8gb Ram laptop I have the same issue… Chrome uses around 70% of my ram at the minimum and drains my battery really quickly …

  7. Nom Nom

    May 25, 2020 at 5:01 pm

    Cool…but what are extensions? Fake hair

    • Ravi Teja KNTS

      May 25, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      haha
      r u a safari user?

  8. Link Geming

    May 25, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    Edge is much better than chrome

  9. Ravi Teja KNTS

    May 25, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    I don’t understand why Tab Groups is such a big deal…
    I always open multiple windows……it is even more cleaner and better

    • MƎEN

      May 25, 2020 at 10:38 pm

      I suppose it’s just another way to do things. Why not group tabs vs searching between windows

  10. Vindawg

    May 25, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    Why oh why would anyone be using Chrome when there is much superior and MUCH MORE SECURE Brave browser!

  11. Howar31

    May 25, 2020 at 6:09 pm

    Tab group should be the top 1 imo

  12. Mahesh Bhattarai

    May 25, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Use “OneTab” extension, it will save Ram while all those tabs can be re-launched. it even remembers the tabs even after you reopen Chrome! I hope you add this extension in your next “top 5” list !😎😎😎

  13. SugarGliderDude

    May 25, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    CNET is using the beta version for anyone wanting to know. This update is coming out in the next couple of weeks. CNET did not explain this very well.

  14. Francois

    May 25, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    Doesn’t the new Edge already do most of thi

  15. armag k

    May 25, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    Google found a new way to track wout cookies

  16. Omar Bin AbdulAziz

    May 25, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    You guys use mac noiiice

  17. rob job

    May 25, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    How about chewing ram ?

  18. Vlad Macovei

    May 25, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    You could delete individual cookies from as long i looked for that functionality. Press the padlock near the url. In the menu that opens press “Cookies”. From there you can delete anything a site might want to store on you computer: cookies, local storage, session storage, indexdb and serviceworkers.

  19. zwr9ne0fh8pk4bt635245

    May 25, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    if there was more graphics and less of your facetime in the total video, according to my calculations, I would have upvoted.
    But the the video would only have been 2 min long…

  20. jamie lunes

    May 25, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    Chrome is Googe?😂

  21. Dave Strong

    May 25, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    I use SESSION BUDDY FOR GROUPINGS TO SAVE and also Export to Clipboard then into an EMAIL to save. I’ll never use Google Tab Groups

  22. Neal Stevens

    May 25, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    I’ll be happy if Chrome will simply work, without chugging to a stop 10x daily.

  23. David

    May 26, 2020 at 12:06 am

    What version is this? I just updated to 83.0.4103.61 and I’m not seeing these new features.

    • Talonts

      May 26, 2020 at 2:11 am

      Me neither. I even updated my Canary install to the latest, 85.0.4155.1, and don’t see the extensions puzzle piece.
      I DO see the “See all cookies and site data” in Canary, though. It doesn’t look as useful as the “Edit all Cookies” extension, IMO.

    • funkspinna

      May 26, 2020 at 2:50 am

      Same here. No new features (at least not the Tab Groups).

    • Beastman Rules

      May 26, 2020 at 12:46 pm

      same

  24. Kevin Timothy

    May 26, 2020 at 12:51 am

    It would be great if they an individual tab mute button.

  25. rakim

    May 26, 2020 at 1:24 am

    I just moved from chrome to edge few days ago and start liking it, guess I’ll head back to chrome again now….

    • Vipul

      May 26, 2020 at 1:08 pm

      I moved to Edge too and loving it as well and don’t plan to move back. Safety check is already there in Edge. Tab groups you can enable from edge://flags, not sure about everything in Enhanced protection but Edge already offers much better security then Chrome because MS always has a focus on security, so as far as security is concerned I would always prefer Edge. Infact, suddenly all these security related features are coming to Chrome just because it is now getting competition from Edge.
      Besides, Edge is bringing “vertical tabs” sometime soon, which really helps in tab management, for me it is the feature i have really been waiting for. I am also enjoying “collection” in Edge which Chrome lacks.

  26. Anthony Hershko

    May 26, 2020 at 2:22 am

    Great video! I was hoping to hear about some improving of the speed…

  27. Michael Lim

    May 26, 2020 at 2:34 am

    Monitor, monitor, and more monitor.

  28. Fat Bastard Pipes

    May 26, 2020 at 4:54 am

    And whats going to protect us from google? 🤔

  29. Anshuman Srivastava

    May 26, 2020 at 5:27 am

    People forgot about Brave browser?

  30. Unclejerry50th

    May 26, 2020 at 6:26 am

    Hope edge chromium gets all these features soon!

    • Vipul

      May 26, 2020 at 1:06 pm

      Safety check is already there in it. Tab groups you can enable from edge://flags, not sure about everything in Enhanced protection but Edge already offers much better security then Chrome.

  31. Matthew Datcher

    May 26, 2020 at 7:53 am

    Good information, but I wish you had actually stated the number of the Chrome version that includes all of these features. My guess is that if these features are supposed to be available on Chrome 83 (since I am using Chrome 83 to type this) then there must be flags that need to be modified. Or, these are slated for release in Chrome 84. I can’t quite tell.

  32. Shreevari SP

    May 26, 2020 at 12:28 pm

    Chrome is adding these features now? Firefox has had them for quite some time now

  33. Beastman Rules

    May 26, 2020 at 12:47 pm

    Update May 14: Google announced today that the Group Tabs feature will begin rolling out next week.

  34. Nadia Ibrahim

    May 26, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    Google Chrome is up to date
    Version 83.0.4103.61 (Official Build) (64-bit) Is this the new version? When I cast a YouTube video to my TV, video and page keeps refreshing every 20 seconds. Posted problem on Help/Community…sites. No answer and No solution. Help, thanks.

  35. jnscollier

    May 26, 2020 at 3:35 pm

    For the love, Google chrome developers are Idiots. The are in the process right now of ruining Chrome. Ex: taking away right-click reopen tab if you click a tab but works on side of tabs. They are incompetent.

  36. Andrew DeFaria

    May 26, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    IMHO tab groups are stupid. Make another window! Put “grouped” tabs in that. Minimize it or put it in another monitor. If you are using that many tabs, as shown here, I’m sorry but you’re just disorganized by nature. You don’t need that many. How do I know? Because you are not regularly using that many. How do I know? Cause you can’t find them! How many other people think that people who have that many tabs open in Chrome will only eventually have that many tab group tabs…

    Also, I think there are two large groups of users – those who maximize every app thus only work on one thing at a time (and can’t see any other windows because the one maximized window is obscuring everything.

    This leads to a certain mindset and a certain way of working. Others like working in multiple windowed situations where you may have load monitors of certain machines, a few text editors, terminal windows, etc. all occupying the screen at the same time. Add pointer focus to the mix and you can easily copy some text from a partially exposed window without having it rise above, and thus obscure what you are doing, and then paste it into the window you were working in. It also allows for you to spot say an error in a long-running script running in the terminal window partially obscured beneath your current window.

    Personally, I grew up on the later working modality as to me it has obvious advantages. I don’t care that others work in a non-multitasking, one big window mode. Just don’t force your mode of operation on others.

    Thanks.

  37. Neal Vedullapalli

    May 26, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    yeah i’m just sticking with the new edge

  38. UnderGodd TheHighest

    May 27, 2020 at 1:55 am

    The per site cookie deletion has been a feature for a few years now.

  39. Dhaval Suthar

    May 27, 2020 at 3:55 am

    Biggest feature is using 80% of system resources. It has replaced Geekbench to benchmark new processors and known as Chrome Tab Score.

  40. Mufqi Alus Naufal

    May 27, 2020 at 12:18 pm

    TAB GROUPS IS AMAZING, my boss will not mock me again with my unorganized tabs XD

  41. Nathaniel12345678910

    May 27, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    So they still haven’t fix the memory issue

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