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Chrome Web Store policy updates: ensuring clarity and consistency for developers
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
February 12, 2025
LCP image subparts and RTT now available in CrUX
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
February 11, 2025
Enter picture-in-picture automatically when playing media
Chrome allows web apps playing media to automatically enter picture-in-picture.
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Chrome
February 5, 2025
February 5, 2025
New in Chrome 133
Chrome 133 is rolling out now! There's some exciting new CSS features and plenty more to discover.
- New in Chrome
- Blog
- CSS
- HTML
- Chrome
February 4, 2025
What's new in DevTools, Chrome 133
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
January 30, 2025
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 133)
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
January 29, 2025
What's happening in Chrome Extensions, January 2025
An overview of the recent changes in Chrome Extensions, plus exciting upcoming extensions features developers can look forward to.
- Chrome Extensions
- Chrome
January 29, 2025
Simplifying WebAuthn feature detection for passkeys
Discover how to detect WebAuthn capabilities with `getClientCapabilities()` and tailor authentication workflows for your users.
- Identity
- Blog
- JavaScript
- Passkeys
- Chrome
January 21, 2025
Freezing on Energy Saver
From Chrome 133, eligible CPU-intensive background tabs will be frozen when Energy Saver mode is active.
- Blog
- Chrome
January 20, 2025
Passkeys on Google Password Manager are now available on iOS
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
- Passkeys
- Chrome
January 16, 2025
January 15, 2025
CSS attr() gets an upgrade
You can now use attr() with any CSS property–including custom properties–and it can parse values into data types other than strings.
- HTML
- CSS
- Chrome
January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025
How we introduced Gemini to Chrome DevTools
Learn about fun and exciting use-cases of the new AI assistance panel in DevTools
- Blog
- CSS
- Chrome DevTools
- Chrome
January 14, 2025
Documentation updates
How LLMs stream responses
Notification and appeals for Chrome Web Store
AI APIs in origin trial
View and edit extension storage
Keep passkeys consistent with credentials with the Signal API
Animate to height: auto;
(and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS
interpolate-size
and calc-size()
Case studies
How Google Search uses speculation rules
Updated February 12, 2025
Learn about how Google Search used the Speculation Rules API to anonymously prefetch search results to improve user experience
- Case study
- Chrome
How Spotify used the Picture-in-Picture API to build the Spotify Miniplayer
Updated May 13, 2024
Learn about the Spotify Miniplayer's transformation from a "canvas hack" to a refined experience enabled by the Document Picture-in-Picture API.
- Case study
- TypeScript
- Chrome
:has() case studies
Updated May 7, 2024
Find out how Policybazaar and Tokopedia benefit from using :has().
- Case study
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Chrome
View transitions case studies
Updated May 7, 2024
redBus, Policybazaar, and Tokopedia all use the View Transition API and benefit from better performance and a smooth UI.
- Case study
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Chrome
Scroll-driven animations case studies
Updated May 7, 2024
Discover the benefits of Scroll-driven animations with Policybazaar, redBus, and Tokopedia.
- Case study
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Chrome
Container queries case studies
Updated May 7, 2024
Learn about the benefits of container queries from redBus and Tokopedia.
- Case study
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Chrome
Popover case studies
Updated April 24, 2024
Tokopedia uses the Popover API to reduce the amount of code in their application.
- Case study
- HTML
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Chrome
How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory
Updated June 5, 2023
Learn how Adobe managed to let users edit even the biggest files on the web version of its iconic Photoshop app. (This article is also available in form of a video.) In 2021, Adobe, together with Chrome engineering, brought a version of Photoshop to
- Case study
- Chrome
How vector image editing app Boxy SVG uses the Local Font Access API to let users pick their favorite local fonts
Updated June 1, 2023
The Local Font Access API provides a mechanism to access the user's locally installed font data, including higher-level details such as names, styles, and families, as well as the raw bytes of the underlying font files. Learn how the SVG editing app
- Case study
- JavaScript
- Chrome