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<\/center> <\/p>\nChrome Canary also added support for the JPEG XL image format, the return of which Google representatives mentioned back in November. The jxl-rs library, which implements JPEG-XL in Rust, is used for decoding JPEG XL. To enable JPEG XL, the parameter 'chrome:\/\/flags\/#enable-jxl-image-format' has been added. <\/p>\n
In the Chrome Beta branch, which will form the basis for the Chrome 145 release, a vertical tab display mode has been added. The setting 'chrome:\/\/flags\/#vertical-tabs' proposes to replace the upper horizontal tab bar with a side panel of vertical tabs. After activating this option, a button 'Show tabs on the side' will appear in the context menu when right-clicking on an empty area of the tab bar.
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<\/center> <\/p>\nKey changes in Chrome 144: <\/p>\n
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- The development of the AI mode has continued, allowing interaction with the AI agent from the address bar or from the page displayed when opening a new tab. The AI mode enables users to ask complex questions in natural language and receive answers based on information aggregated from the most relevant pages on a given topic. If necessary, the user can clarify information with follow-up questions. The mode also allows users to ask questions about the content of a page directly from the address bar.\n
In Chrome 144, the capabilities of the built-in chatbot Gemini have been expanded, introducing support for uploading images into Gemini (via the context menu) and generating new images based on them. An AI mode has also been added for multiple tabs; AI can answer questions about the content of selected tabs, compare content, summarize, and search for information.
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<\/center> <\/p>\nPreviously, AI mode was only available on macOS and Windows platforms, but now the 'AI Mode' button and activation via the tab key before starting to input in the address bar have also appeared in builds for Linux (it seems not yet for all users). On the 'chrome:\/\/flags' page, AI can be managed through the 'ai-mode' options.
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<\/center> <\/p>\n- A new simplified layout has been activated for some users when opening a new tab. The new version eliminates visual clutter and provides more options for customizing the appearance. Support for hiding individual content blocks with the \"Dismiss\" button has been removed, and instead, users are now offered the option to disable entire categories (for example, instead of hiding a specific recipe, users can choose to hide all recipe displays).\n
- In configurations based on Windows OS, where centralized management of Chrome is applied, protection against unauthorized changes to important settings has been implemented, such as changes made by malware to the search engine. When unauthorized changes to settings by third-party software are detected, such settings are now automatically reset to their default state.\n
- The third version of the Happy Eyeballs algorithm has been implemented, which is used to choose the optimal protocol when connecting to hosts available at both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. When using the Happy Eyeballs algorithm, the client resolves both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for the host simultaneously and sends a connection request over IPv6. It then attempts to connect to other associated host addresses in parallel without waiting for the results of previous connection attempts. The connection that is established first remains active, while the others are closed. The third version of the protocol additionally analyzes DNS records SVCB (Service Binding) and HTTPS for determining support for HTTP\/3 and HTTPS alongside the DNS records A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6). In cases of availability, QUIC protocol and the TLS ECH extension are considered higher priority.\n
- The Direct Sockets API, which allows direct TCP and UDP connections to external systems, as well as creating listening sockets for accepting connections, has added support for multicast transmission. Isolated Web Applications (IWA) can now subscribe to multicast groups and receive multicast UDP packets sent to them.\n
- The interfaces and technologies developed under the Privacy Sandbox initiative have been declared deprecated and are scheduled for removal in Chrome 150: API Topics (which replaced API FLoC), API Protected Audience, API Shared Storage, API Attribution Reporting, Private Aggregation, API Related Website Sets, and requestStorageAccessFor. For more details, see Google's announcement regarding Privacy Sandbox plans.\n
- A new pseudo-element \"::search-text\" has been added to CSS, allowing the color, background, and decorative elements of text highlighted as a result of local searches on the page to be changed, similar to the previously available pseudo-elements \"::highlight\", \"::spelling-error\", and \"::grammar-error\", which allow for changing the styles of highlighted text and marking errors.\n
- A new CSS property \"caret-shape\" has been introduced, enabling customization of the cursor appearance in editable fields.\n
- The event \"clipboardchange\" has been added, which is generated when the content in the clipboard changes, allowing for efficient detection without resource-intensive periodic polling using JavaScript.\n
- A new HTML element has been added, intended for embedding buttons and links on a page to call the interface for confirming access to the user's location information provided by the corresponding JavaScript API.
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<\/center>\n- A JavaScript object called Temporal has been added, implementing an alternative set of methods for working with dates and times. The new API allows manipulation of dates with or without time zone consideration, converting times, formatting outputs, and performing arithmetic operations on time. Time can be expressed independently of time zones (Temporal.PlainDate, Temporal.PlainTime, Temporal.PlainDateTime), associated with time zones (Temporal.ZonedDateTime), and in epoch representation (Temporal.Instant \u2014 the number of nanoseconds since January 1, 1970).\n
- Improvements have been made to the tools for web developers. An option to launch remote debugging without requiring a browser restart has been added to the content inspection page (chrome:\/\/inspect) (previously, a similar server could only be started via the command-line option). In the Styles panel, editing of the CSS rules \u2018@font-face\u2019 and \u2018@font-feature-values\u2019 is now allowed. In the network inspection interface, the \u2018Request blocking\u2019 panel has been renamed to \u2018Request conditions\u2019 and now allows not only blocking but also throttling of individual network requests. server<\/a> remote debugging, which no longer requires restarting the browser (previously, such a server could only be started through a command line option). In the Styles panel, editing of CSS rules for \"@font-face\" and \"@font-feature-values\" is now permitted. In the network inspection interface, the \"Request blocking\" panel has been renamed to \"Request conditions\" and now allows not only blocking but also throttling of individual network requests.