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The Chrome Web Store is committed to fostering a high-quality and trustworthy ecosystem for developers and users. To align with this goal, we're announcing a series of policy updates designed to provide clarity and consistency across our platform.

  • Chrome
  • Chrome Extensions

Rebecca Soares

February 11, 2025

Learn about the change to the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX changes) in the February 2025 release including LCP image subparts, LCP resource types, and RTT.

  • Chrome

Barry Pollard and Johannes Henkel

February 11, 2025

Chrome allows web apps playing media to automatically enter picture-in-picture.

  • Blog
  • JavaScript
  • Chrome

Francois Beaufort

February 5, 2025

Discover the latest features coming to Chrome.

  • Release notes
  • Chrome

Rachel Andrew

February 5, 2025

Chrome 133 is rolling out now! There's some exciting new CSS features and plenty more to discover.

  • New in Chrome
  • Blog
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Chrome

Rachel Andrew

February 4, 2025

Persistent AI chat history, better navigation, ignore listing, and stack traces in Performance, new 'What's new' panel, and more.

  • New in Chrome
  • Chrome
  • Chrome DevTools

Sofia Emelianova

January 30, 2025

Additional unorm8x4-bgra and 1-component vertex formats, allow unknown limits to be requested with undefined value, WGSL alignment rules changes, WGSL performance gains with discard, and much more.

  • WebGpu
  • New in Chrome
  • Release notes
  • JavaScript
  • Chrome

Francois Beaufort

January 29, 2025

An overview of the recent changes in Chrome Extensions, plus exciting upcoming extensions features developers can look forward to.

  • Chrome
  • Chrome Extensions

Sebastian Benz

January 29, 2025

Discover how to detect WebAuthn capabilities with `getClientCapabilities()` and tailor authentication workflows for your users.

  • Identity
  • Blog
  • JavaScript
  • Passkeys
  • Chrome

Jose Luis Zapata

January 21, 2025

From Chrome 133, eligible CPU-intensive background tabs will be frozen when Energy Saver mode is active.

  • Blog
  • Chrome

Francois Doray

January 20, 2025

Chrome on iOS 17 or later can now create, sync and authenticate with passkeys in Google Password Manager (GPM). This makes passkeys on GPM available everywhere Chrome is.

  • Identity
  • Blog
  • Chrome
  • Passkeys

Eiji Kitamura

January 16, 2025

Like container queries; but for stuck, snapped, and overflowing queries.

  • CSS
  • Chrome

Adam Argyle

January 15, 2025