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.

Comments

Firefox, it is

[DogDude]

It's Firefox for me, then. The last remaining browser that doesn't track and spy on me...?

Caret Browsing Definition From the Article

[Anonymous Coward]

FTA: For those who don’t know, Caret navigation basically means using a text cursor to move around a page. With Caret browsing, users will be able to add a cursor to any webpage and use keyboard shortcuts like Shift+Arrow Keys to select text without using the mouse. The feature is already available in Edge and can be activated using F7 key on the keyboard.

Firefox and Brave browsers

[SirAstral]

I use them both interchangeably depending on my needs.

Firefox with NoScript is my default, searching browser.
I use Brave for a few other things when I get tired of dealing with the alphabet script soup I deal with on some websites and it had a built in AD block, tracker block, anti-phish, anti fingerprinting, and HTTPS anywhere stuff.

Google Chrome is spyware and its not even a secret.

Re: What comes next?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Extend

[fibonacci8]

This is traditionally referred to as the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Re:Extend

[Gregg M]

This is traditionally referred to as the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Yea.. but this time they're competing with someone who is as fast and as nimble as they are.

Google will say

"Hey! Thanks for the suggestion" it'll be in the next update for chrome.

Firefox is getting so far behind..

[newbie_fantod]

...I mean it still hasn't got a decent key-logger.

Re: What comes next?

[DontBeAMoran]

The day they stopped making Safari for Windows is the day they gave up their power to do anything about it.

Re: What comes next?

[DontBeAMoran]

https://www.w3counter.com/glob...
Chrome 62.5%
Safari 13.8%
IE+Edge 7.0%
Firefox 6.3%
Opera 3.0%

But if all IE/Edge users switched to this new "Microsoft Chrome" browser, the new stats would be:
Chrome 69.5%
Safari 13.8%
Firefox 6.3%
Opera 3.0%

And if you look at the monthly trends, Safari is just barely keeping its relative numbers while Chrome keeps going up, eating both Microsoft's and Mozilla's shares. But since Microsoft is basically becoming Chrome, the IE/Edge marketshare becomes irrelevant and simply pushes Chrome even higher.

I, for one, welcome our new Googlesoft overlords. ... sent from my Mac.

Open web? User choice?

[markdavis]

>"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."

Really? Standards? User choice? My translation this marketing speak is this:

"We look forward to getting Microsoft to use our browser so we can better force whatever we want as web standards to advance our control over the web, reduce user choice, and deliver a great browser-supplier experience"

If you want something actually based on open standards, is actually open source, is actually about user choice, is actually driven by the community (and performs well and runs on all platforms, too); well, at least there is still one choice left. Firefox.