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Google is always adding new and useful changes to Chrome that augment the experience. There’s a reason why it’s the most popular browser. The company just announced some useful safety and performance improvements to Chrome that only make the experience better.
Here are the new safety and performance improvements coming to Chrome
Starting off the list, we have a feature that’s useful any time of the year, but it’s most useful during the holiday season. You’re likely to be doing some last-minute holiday shopping. Well, the holiday season is the time when most online scams happen. Bad actors like to prey on folks looking for the best deals on what to buy their loved ones.
Safety Check
Well, Google announced that the Safety Check feature will now run in the background. This is the feature that monitors your web activity and makes sure that you’re safe online. You’ll get notifications about which of your passwords were compromised. Also, the program will let you know if any of the extensions you’re using are harmful and if you’re not on the latest version of Chrome.
Google is also adding more functionality to Safety Check. Some sites need permissions like the ability to use your microphone or camera. Well, if you grant a site that permission, and you don’t visit that site for a while, Chrome will automatically remove those permissions.
Lastly, if a site you don’t typically interact with is sending you notifications en masse, Chrome will disable notifications for that site.
Saved Tab Groups
This feature shouldn’t be a surprise to you if you’ve been testing out Chrome features early. In fact, this feature has been in testing for the greater part of the year. Now, it’s making its way to the public. You’ve been able to make Tab groups in Chrome. However, this feature will let you save those groups to be summoned at a later time. The group will live right under your navigation controls. You’ll see the saved tab groups even if you close the program.
Smarter Performance Controls
Rounding out the list of new changes coming to Chrome, we have some new additions to the Memory Saver Mode. If you don’t know what this mode is, Google introduced Memory Saver last year. When you hover your cursor over a tab, you’ll see how much memory (RAM) that tab is using up. Memory Saver mode will put certain tabs to sleep in order to save RAM.
With this update, when you hover over the tab, you’ll see more information. It will show you how much Memory Saver has saved you. Also, Chrome will make it easier to know what sites should remain on all the time.
These changes are rolling out now, so be on the lookout for a new update from Chrome.