Coolest Features to Try in Chrome Canary
The standard or ” stable ” version of Google Chrome offers a lot of tweaks and quality of life improvements, but if you want the latest experimental features before anyone else, you should try Chrome Canary .
Described by Google as the “cutting edge” version of their browser, Chrome Canary contains new settings and tools that you can try before they are officially released – if they even make it into the stable version of the browser. Keep in mind: Life as a canary can lead to performance degradation as the browser is still in active development, but you can keep both Canary and Chrome stable on your system at the same time.
To enable advanced Chrome Canary features, first download your browser and navigate to the url chrome: // flags /. From here, you’ll see a huge list of features – some are experimental, while others are available in the standard version of Google Chrome. Here are some of the most exciting features in Chrome Canary you can use to improve your web experience right now:
Heavy page limitation
You don’t know how much data a web page will use before you click on it, but with Heavy Page Capping enabled (as well as Chrome’s data saving feature), you’ll be notified whenever a page crosses a certain threshold. If “low” is enabled, it can be as little as 1MB and you can stop all future downloads with one click. Most of the web pages you visit, especially those with images or videos, will be well above this threshold. If you choose to stop downloading future data, any images that have not yet loaded will simply not appear.
Tab customization
If you find tabs in Chrome too simple, or if you don’t like where you usually find the New Tab button, you can fix both issues in Chrome Canary. Turn on New Tab Button Position to move the New Tab Button to a new location, including the position to the left of tabs, to the right of tabs, or after tabs. It all comes down to personal preference, although we found placing it behind tabs makes it easier to keep track of. By enabling Single Tab Mode, you can give browser windows with only one tab a slight fade-out effect, as if there were no tabs on the page at all.
Gamepad vibration
Google Chrome probably isn’t your platform for video games, but every now and then you find yourself playing browser games that require a controller. With Gamepad Vibration enabled, the vibration functions on your controller will work in Chrome. The controller you use to play games in dedicated apps should now beep when playing games in your browser. No list of supported controllers was provided, but to check if yours works correctly, you can try the Construct Gamepad Plus tool .
Take advantage of all the upcoming user interface features
If you need access to the latest UI changes – the latest features include rounded tabs instead of hard corners – as soon as these are added to Chrome Canary, enable “Use all upcoming UI features.” This will allow you to see what a future Chrome build might look like, allowing you to go through the stages of hating it and then come to terms with it without using it all the time. If the icons or tabs have changed, you will first see them here.
Block unsafe downloads over unsafe connections
To keep your browser and system completely safe while using Chrome Canary, you can enable the “Block unsafe downloads over insecure connections” option. Chrome should already block similar downloads on sites that are otherwise safe, but enabling this feature will stop any downloads made in Chrome Canary that are using an unsafe source anywhere in the redirect chain. If you find that the download of a required file is not possible, you can always disable it temporarily or download the stable version of Chrome to complete the download.