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Microsoft's Collaboration On Google's Chromium Brings a New Feature To Chrome (mspoweruser.com)
Remember when Microsoft announced they'd be switching to Google's open source Chromium browser for developing their own Edge browser? At the time Google announced "We look forward to working with Microsoft and the web standards community to advance the open web, support user choice, and deliver great browsing experiences."
Now MSPoweruser reports Microsoft has indeed started collaborating on Chromium -- making suggestions like caret browsing and a native high-contrast mode -- and at least one of Microsoft's suggestions is already coming to Chrome. it looks like there is one feature that Chromium approved which will be making its way to Chrome soon. According to a new bug (via Techdows) filing on Chromium, Google is working on bringing text suggestions for hardware keyboard to Chrome soon. The feature will allow users to get suggestions as they type which is currently available on Windows 10 and on Microsoft Edge.
Google has just started working on the feature and has set the priority to 2 which suggests that the feature should be available sooner than later.
Now MSPoweruser reports Microsoft has indeed started collaborating on Chromium -- making suggestions like caret browsing and a native high-contrast mode -- and at least one of Microsoft's suggestions is already coming to Chrome. it looks like there is one feature that Chromium approved which will be making its way to Chrome soon. According to a new bug (via Techdows) filing on Chromium, Google is working on bringing text suggestions for hardware keyboard to Chrome soon. The feature will allow users to get suggestions as they type which is currently available on Windows 10 and on Microsoft Edge.
Google has just started working on the feature and has set the priority to 2 which suggests that the feature should be available sooner than later.
Envelop!
While extinguish would normally be the term, this is presumably to isolate all other browsers. It seems MS, despite its coffers, is wholly inept at adequate browser software development. Baffling, but here we are.
No, this is to create a 2 class browser field. Chrome and Edge, and then everyone else. The latter of which will be 'persecuted', for lack of a better term, due to the following features, becoming unsupported by the mainstream:
- media streaming: dropped due to partnership deals
- corporate implementation: due to security and functionality limitations
Once Opera, Firefox, Vivaldi, etc... start getting kicked out of general use beyond individual users, out of business and corporate environments, it will be difficult to maintain the browsers on par with where MS and Google decide to take the browser space. Because unfortunately, they will take the lead if they haven't already.