Google is constantly experimenting with its products and services with techniques like A/B testing to see how people react to certain changes. Some of their services, such as Google Chrome, have separate experimental builds so employees and the community can test out features as they’re being developed. A new hidden flag in the Google Chrome Canary build for Android shows breaking news on the new tab page using a push notification.
Earlier this year we showed you a hidden feature that was built into Google Chrome called Chrome Home that could be enabled by toggling a couple of flags in the app. It’s these types of features that Google works on outside of the stable branch so they can see if they’re it’s good enough to become permanent features in the browser. These features sometimes get abandoned, though, and are often full of bugs and stability issues because they are simply experiments.
But sometimes they work great and the feature just isn’t fit for the average user. Whatever the reason is though, digging through the chrome://flags page after a new update can reveal some new features that could be coming to Chrome in the future. Google has been changing the way Chrome’s new tab page has looked over the years and this new feature will use Google’s push notification service to deliver breaking news to the Chrome browser.
Via: Chrome Story
The folks over at Chrome Story found this option in the hidden flags page (as shown above) that, when enabled, should allow breaking news articles to be pushed to Chrome’s new tab page. As mentioned, this is one of those features in early development, so they haven’t been able to catch it in action. But presumably when you sign up for news alerts from websites, they will now have a new way of delivering content to you directly through Chrome’s new tab page.
Via: Chrome Story
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