Google Chrome’s Latest Update Introduces Useful Features
August 17, 2022Photo Credit: Google
Google Chrome’s latest update brings with it some helpful features that improve the overall user experience. Based on the company’s recent track record it should come as no surprise that our favorite web browser continues to receive proper, usable features.
Learn more about an image with Google Lens
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If you haven’t heard of Google Lens, you’ll be happy to know that it’s a help search tool that uses images to provide you with the answers you seek. This could be a picture of an outfit you’d like to buy or a species of rodent you’d like to know more about. Google Lens can take these images and provide relevant results.
Now, you can use Google Lens to search for things within Chrome itself. All you have to do is right click on an image and select Search Image with Google Lens. The results should show up on the side panel of your browser.
Full-screen view of PDFs
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Chrome can open PDFs within the browser itself. But with Present mode, you can view said PDFs in full screen, which makes things a little easier to read or understand. To do this, open a PDF in the Chrome browser, then go to the PDF viewer Menu (represented by three vertical dots at the top right-hand corner) and select Present.
Pick Up Where You Left Off
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This is a useful feature for those of us who are constantly involved with research work. Instead of having to access the bookmark tab to reopen work that we’d left off the night before, now Chrome remembers that information, and reopens everything just the way you had it before. This is also a Godsend for people who mistakenly close several tabs, instead of a specific one.
To enable this feature, click on More (this is represented by three vertical dots at the top right-hand corner of your browser) and select Settings. Then, click “On startup” to display more options. Now, you should be able to select between three different options: “Open the New Tab page”, “Continue where you left off” and “Open a specific page or set of pages”.
