It’s been a few days since Chrome OS 91 arrived on Chromebooks, which introduced supportive features like Nearby Share and a competent media player. Following its delivery, they have been diving into the new update and uncovering much more that could improve your Chromebook experience. Here are three trial yet accommodating features they have discovered that you can attempt at the present time.
Get Windows Recycle Bin for Chrome OS
They have all made that feared error of erasing some unacceptable file by accident. Unlike to Windows, Chromebooks doesn’t give an approach to restore the file or folder you eliminated. In any case, with a hidden Chrome flag, your laptop will presently be more lenient to us incidental deleters. The trial adds a Trash folder to Chrome OS, functioning like the consistently iconic Recycle Bin found on Windows. You can empower it right now by copying and pasting the following URL into Chrome’s address bar and switching on its toggle:
Whenever you’ve restarted your device, you’ll see another “Trash” entry on the file manager’s navigation pane.
The idea of the junk feature is basic: when you delete a file or folder, Chrome OS will move it inside the waste envelope. It’ll briefly rename contents inside the receptacle to the file path of its original location. You can decide to erase individual files, restore them back, or empty the trash — do this just in case you’re sure you don’t need the binned files any longer. While slower than preferred but good enough, offering the opportunity to restore files will save countless important documents from being erased by accident.
Transcribe speech using Live Caption
Google declared Live Caption for Chromebooks when it released Chrome OS several months prior. To recap, Live Caption permits you to read alongside content you’re watching by generating real-time captions with impressive accuracy — and it works offline, as well. Despite the fact that Google said its caption feature will show up “in the coming weeks,” it actually hasn’t arrived for everybody. In the event that you’ve been eagerly waiting for this feature, activate the following flag and restart your Chromebook:
When your session boots back up, explore into Accessibility settings inside system preferences and flip on the Live Caption switch. In the event that it whines that it can’t download discourse documents, you’ll need to disable chrome://flags/#enable-accessibility-live-caption-soda. This should make it work — at the expense of decreased transcribing accuracy.
Live Caption ought to be coming to Chromebooks soon, and they are effectively anticipating it as it’s one of Android’s best features.
Improve productivity with Progressive Web App tabs
Progressive Web Apps as of now dispatch as a single window on Chrome OS. While that can closely resemble utilizing a local application, some web applications (like Figma) advantage from a selected UI. It’s particularly irritating when you visit joins inside the PWA — Chrome will put a monster address bar on top, consuming more vertical space. Fortunately, you will not need to stand by any longer for Google to take care of that, as it’s working on a tab strip UI for improved productivity. Copy and paste the URLs below into Chrome’s address bar, enable them, and reboot your Chromebook:
To launch a tabbed Progressive Web App or Chrome shortcut, right-click the icon, float over the “New window” arrow, and select “New tabbed window” from the context menu. In case you’re installing a web application, there will be another checkbox to install and launch it in a tabbed window. Connections inside the application will open inside the window instead to opening another Chrome tab.
There’s no denying that Chromebooks are developing with each significant update. It might take a couple of more Chrome OS updates for these hidden features to show up, yet they offer an exciting look of what’s coming to Chrome OS later on.