Google Chrome on iOS will soon get this useful Safari feature

After almost two years since Apple’s Safari browser moved the tackle bar to the underside of the display, Google Chrome’s iOS model is making the identical transfer.

The new feature, known as Bottom Omnibox Setting, is within the testing part within the Testlfight model of the Chrome app on iOS, which was first reported on by iOS developer Steve Moser. Along with revealing the identify and standing of the feature, Moser additionally posted a screenshot of what the selection appears like within the settings menu, with customers capable of swap between the tackle bar being on the backside or the highest of the display.

In order to make the tackle bar swap, customers merely must go to Settings, then Address Bar on Chrome’s take a look at model. However, for these utilizing the TestFlight model of Chrome, you want to allow the “chrome://flags/#bottom-omnibox-steady-state” flag. The feature hasn’t been rolled out to all customers but, however even this restricted launch ought to be useful to those that need a extra uniform interface on Safari and Chrome, in addition to these with bigger screens since backside tackle bars are nearer to your thumbs on large shows.

According to Android Police, Google tried this similar feature for Chrome on Android again in 2020, however discontinued it, ultimately.

Chrome has been pushing down loads of new options 

Google has been laborious at work updating and increasing its Chrome browser with new options and instruments, a lot of which are supposed to enhance person security. One such change is the plan to ‘proactively highlight’ Chrome extensions which have been made unavailable within the Chrome Web Store.

There’s additionally Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ venture, which will be the top of third-party cookies within the browser. Users will have six new APIs made out there to them with a view to settle for focused promoting with out the necessity for privacy-invading advertisements. Another feature may present an in-line preview of the contents of a hyperlink, which might give customers a greater view of what web site they’re about to go to earlier than clicking on a hyperlink.

Not each change has been accepted with open arms, although. Google launched a Web Environment Integrity (WEI) API, which might enable servers to “evaluate the authenticity of the device” with a view to stop some forms of fraud. But it’s been met with loads of backlash, not solely from customers with issues about surveillance and discrimination, but in addition from a number of browser makers together with Brave, Firefox, and Vivaldi.

Chrome has been making loads of strikes and most of them are constructive. But so long as it continues to assemble and management person knowledge in such an iron-fisted manner, it’ll nonetheless cope with controversies.

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