Chrome 106 Has Arrived: What’s New in the Update?

As announced on September 27, Google Chrome has released yet another update. As part of Google Chrome’s four-week release cycle of updates to give you a better browsing experience, version 106 is now available.

At the moment, the new features in Google Chrome 106 are hidden behind experimental flags, and aren’t default features yet. In this article, we’ll take a look at what comes in Chrome’s latest update.

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1. Desktop Partial Translate

The Desktop Partial Translate experimental flag allows you to highlight text and translate it into another language. Prior to this update, Google Chrome already allowed you to translate pages, but this is way more convenient for when you simply want to translate a sentence or a paragraph. It matches the functionality of manypopular translation tools for Chrome.

To access this feature, here’s what you have to do:

The Google Chrome logo against a green background

2. RSS Reader on Chrome Desktop

If you spend a lot of time browsing the internet, then you understand howusing an RSS reader helps you stay informed. While Chrome already has an RSS reader for Android, the feature is finally being reintroduced to desktop through experimental flags, years after Google Reader was discontinued.

The RSS reader isn’t fully functional yet, but currently, you’re able to follow and unfollow sites. To get this feature, follow these steps:

Chrome’s experiments home page

Keeping Up With Chrome’s Changes

The above-mentioned updates can help improve your browsing experience. Chrome 106 comes with 20 security fixes in its stable release. That way, it’s possible to continue to browse securely until the next update arrives. Even though most features are experimental flags, they will like be released in a stable version of Chrome in future.

Updates come with critical security improvements and features to enhance your browsing experience. So, it’s important to keep up. But, if you’re not keen on Chrome’s automatic updates, there’s a way to stop automatic updates from Chrome.

Chrome experiments page

Google Chrome doesn’t want to let you, but Windows users can disable automatic updates in just a few easy steps.

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