If Chrome is your preferred browser, you’ve likely experienced some frustration withbeing bombarded by sites asking to post notificationson your Android device. You may have even enabled the feature for a handful of websites over the years, whether that was on purpose or by accident. While there’s a setting you may toggle to manage notifications, it’s not always the easiest to find. Now, it seems that Google is taking steps to improve its UI and resolve this long-standing annoyance forChromeusers.
As spotted on theChromium project website, Google is now testing a feature that provides Chrome users with a one-tap button to disable all notifications from a site (viaWindows Report). Before, when a site posted a notification, you would see a Site Settings button on it. Tapping this took you to the associated menu in Chrome’s settings, where you could then drill down into the Notifications section to find the website in question and revoke its permission to send notifications.
Over the past few months, Google has been making tweaks to Chrome to improve its UI in subtle but helpful ways. For instance, it rolled out a feature that allows Chrome desktop users to nowset the browser as their default PDF reader. It debuted in Chrome Canary for testing, and when enabled, it automatically opens downloaded PDFs within the browser. This eliminates the need to use the Google Drive PDF viewer, but it’s unknown if the setting will be coming to Android. For now, mobile Chrome users may still need to rely on the Google PDF Viewer. It’s possible that the feature could be introduced to Android when it’s officially introduced to Chrome, but that is also still up in the air.
In terms of Android, Google hasn’t entirely forgotten about Chrome’s mobile users. For example,the Read Aloud feature is finally being testedfor Android. It is assumed that it will be coming out with Chrome 122 for Android, and the feature would allow you to retrieve a read version of any text in the browser. Although it hasn’t been officially rolled out just yet, you’re able to find it within the flags of Chrome 121.
Although it may seem like Google is slow to make improvements to the Chrome UI, it’s clear that the company has no intention of abandoning the browser. That being said, adjustments will likely continue to be made to keep Chrome users dedicated to the browser now and in the future. With more competition sprouting up, it isn’t surprising that Google is attempting to keep pace with such changes.
