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Chrome now lets you turn AI prompts into repeatable ‘Skills’

2026-04-14T13:02:19-04:00

Google is launching a new Chrome workflow feature that allows you to reuse your favorite Gemini commands across multiple webpages. Any AI prompts can now be saved as "Skills" in the Chrome desktop browser, letting you instantly run them across any tabs you select.

"Until now, repeating an AI task - like asking for ingredient substitutions to make a recipe vegan - meant re-entering the same prompt as you visited different pages," Chrome product manager Hafsah Ismail said in the announcement. "To make this easier, we're launching Skills in Chrome, which lets you save and reuse your most helpful AI prompts and run them with a single click."

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Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year

2026-03-13T05:39:19-04:00

You can download Chrome for Linux, and you can download Chrome for Arm devices - but if you've got a computer running Linux on Arm, not so much! Now, Google says it's finally bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux machines in Q2 2026, following Chrome for Arm Macs in 2020 and Chrome for Windows on Arm in 2024.

Why Arm + Linux now? In a blog post, Google only says that it "addresses the growing demand for a browsing experience that combines the benefits of the open-source Chromium project with the Google ecosystem of apps and features." What we're left wondering is whether Google's talking about existing demand, or demand yet to come.

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Google accelerates Chrome’s release cycle from every four weeks to two

2026-03-03T15:01:07-05:00

Starting in September, Google is moving its Chrome browser to a two-week release cycle, instead of the current four-week cycle, or the six-week cycle that existed for the decade before that.

The web platform is constantly advancing, and our goal is to ensure developers and users have immediate access to the latest performance improvements, fixes and new capabilities. Building on our history of adapting our release process to match the demands of a modern web, Chrome is moving to a two-week release cycle. While releases will be more frequent, their smaller scope minimizes disruption and simplifies post-release debugging. And thanks to rece …

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Aluminium: Why Google’s Android for PC launch may be messy and controversial

2026-02-03T15:07:26-05:00

"Finally." That was my first reaction when I heard Google would combine Android and ChromeOS into a single operating system. Android has long struggled on tablets, and ChromeOS always felt like too much of a stripped-down alternative to tempt me away from Windows and Mac. So last week, it was exciting to see a leaked first glimpse at Google's Aluminium OS, and hear it may already be slated for an Intel Panther Lake laptop dubbed "Ruby" and a "Sapphire" high-end tablet.

But the future may not be coming as fast as you'd think, and it might be messy when it gets here. According to previously unreported court documents in the Google search anti …

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Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome

2026-01-29T05:46:05-05:00

Google is launching a new "auto browse" feature inside Chrome that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf. The Gemini AI-powered capability is coming to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, and can do things like research hotel and flight costs, schedule appointments, fill out online forms, manage subscriptions, and more.

The update marks another expansion for Gemini in Chrome, which initially served as an AI assistant that you can use to ask questions or summarize content on the webpage you're reading. Google later added the ability for Gemini to compare products across multiple tabs and recall pages from your browsing histo …

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Google just leaked a first look at Android for PC in action

2026-01-28T04:26:01-05:00

Aluminium OS looks like exactly what it is: a hybrid of Android and ChromeOS.

We've been waiting months for our first look at Android running on a PC in Google's upcoming ChromeOS / Android hybrid platform, codenamed Aluminium OS. Now we've seen it in action, and have Google to thank for the leak.

9to5Google spotted a bug report related to Chrome Incognito tabs published to the Google Issue Tracker yesterday, including two screen recordings taken from a device running Aluminium OS. Google has now restricted access to the report, but 9to5Google managed to pull the videos first. The site also reports that the bug tracker mentioned an ALOS software version - already confirmed to be the initialism for Aluminium OS - and …

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Google brings Gemini’s Chrome integration to iPhone and iPad

2025-12-11T17:51:27-05:00

Built-in Gemini AI features in Chrome are now becoming more widely available on the iOS version of Google's browser, as reported by 9to5Google and Engadget. They're popping up several months after the features' rollout on the desktop version started in September.

Once the new Gemini features are active on your iPhone or iPad, Chrome users will see a new icon in the left corner of the address bar (where the Google Lens icon used to be), shaped like a notebook page with the Gemini star symbol in one corner. By tapping that new icon, you can ask Gemini questions about what's on screen or have it summarize webpages.

The capabilities of this i …

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Chrome can now autofill details from your Google account

2025-12-05T13:02:17-05:00

Google has announced several autofill improvements being rolled out to the mobile and desktop versions of Chrome. The updates will give autofill access to more of your data from places like Google Wallet and make it easier to select the right info a form is asking for when there are multiple suggestions.

Autofill can now access your name, email address, and saved work and home addresses from your Google Account while you're signed into the desktop, iOS, and Android versions of Chrome.

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For Chrome on Android, Google is expanding the autofill suggestions that appear above the onscreen keyboard so they're not as condensed and easier to differe …

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Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC

2025-11-25T10:45:07-05:00

We know a little more about Google's long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on "Aluminium OS." The job ad describes it as "a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core."

Android Authority first reported on the job listing, which is two months old, but wasn't spotted until recently and has now been taken offline. It gives a name - or more likely codename - to Google's new operating system for the first time, along with the initialism "ALOS." It specifically describes Aluminium as "Android-based," and says the c …

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Chrome is about to show even more safety warnings

2025-10-29T12:05:15-04:00

You're going to start seeing more warnings in Chrome when accessing insecure sites. Starting next October, Chrome will soon warn users when they visit a public website without an encrypted HTTPS connection.

Chrome already issues a "Your connection is not private" message when you visit pages that have an HTTPS connection that's misconfigured. But this will expand the warnings to websites that don't use HTTPS at all.

Google first offered insecure connections warnings for HTTP pages in 2021, but users had to opt in to see them. HTTPS - or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure - uses encryption to establish a secure connection with a website, pr …

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