This means that while browsers like Chrome and Microsoft Edge are built with Chromium on macOS and Windows, their iOS counterparts are forced to use Apple's WebKit, making them behave similarly to Safari.īased on the visible code commits, the app purportedly looks like the start of an alternate browser build and is still missing some key features at this early stage.

Yet if Google attempted to release it on the App Store, it would not pass Apple's App Review process.Īpple's ‌App Store‌ rules dictate that browser apps on iOS and iPadOS must use its own WebKit browser engine. The experimental browser, which is being actively pursued by developers, uses Google's Blink engine. To immediately check for and install any available updates, click the three-dot menu icon and click Help > About Google Chrome.Google's Chromium developers are working on an experimental web browser for iOS that would break Apple's browser engine restrictions, The Register reports. The ability for Web Payment API to bypass the connect-src CSP policy when fetching the manifest has been deprecated in Chrome 111.Ĭhrome will automatically install the update on your device when it’s available.ArrayBuffer constructors have been extended to take an additional maximum length that allows in-place growth and shrinking of buffers.previousslide and nextslide actions have been added to the existing Media Session API.All features described in CSS Color Level 4 are now enabled. The color-mix() function from CSS Color 5 is also available.Chrome 111 adds window-management as an alias for window-placement permission and permission-policy strings.However, there’s still a lot happening under the hood. You can read about many of these changes on Google’s developer blog. Chrome releases don’t have as many big new features these days.

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