Chrome OS 87 Adds Tab Search and Bluetooth Device Battery Levels

Chrome OS 87 starting rolling out on Thursday, adding the ability to search tabs, view the battery levels of your Bluetooth devices, and more. 9to5Google reports: Tab Groups help people better manage (and collapse/hide) tabs, but it doesn't always reduce the number open. Google is now introducing Tab Search to let users find what pages they have open across all windows. Tapping the circular dropdown button in the top-right corner -- also accessible with Ctrl+Shift+A -- first shows a list of everything open. It includes the favicon, page name, and domain, as well as an individual close button. This feature is first rolling out to Chromebooks before coming to desktop browsers.

Chrome OS 87 will list the Bluetooth battery levels of accessories in Settings and Quick Settings. Just navigate to the Bluetooth menu. This feature is primarily meant for wireless headphones and will show a notification with the current level in the bottom-right corner of your screen upon connection. Chrome OS 87 also adds 36 new backgrounds created by four different artists. To set, right-click on the desktop or shelf and select "Set wallpaper."

Other features in this release include:
- Saving to Google Drive has been updated with the ability to rename the file and selecting what folder to store it in
- Chrome OS devices now support switch accessibility devices
- Google has updated language settings to be easier for multilingual users to navigate
- The Alt+Tab window switcher now supports mouse, touch screen, and stylus input
- Version 87 makes visual improvements when renaming Virtual Desks and Launcher folders

More O.S. features...

[fbobraga]

...for a browser!

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[lessSockMorePuppet]

If they want to make a bloody OS, put in goddamn charge bracketing. Let me set minimum and maximum charge states, e.g., 20% and 80%.

Re: More O.S. features...

[fbobraga]

Today much hardware is needed to only run a browser...

Already being abused

[guruevi]

I recently had my OS pop up Chrome wanted to have access to USB and Bluetooth (apparently the API allows access to both) after visiting a legacy news media site. Even though I have AdBlock installed, not sure what they wanted it for or how they'll use it, but they'll use it somehow.

Not sure why any website needs access to Bluetooth, if a site needs access to audio, it can go through the OS, same for keyboard, mouse and any other device out there. If necessary to configure some custom Bluetooth doodad, have the device pair itself to my device or WiFi, establish a network and then you can visit the built-in webpage to configure it.

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Reality

[BrendaEM]

The messed up thing, when you give your right to privacy so easily, they expect it from us.

ChromeOS

[dicobalt]

Lock you into the ecosystem and control your data like it's the 1970s.

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Re: Bluetooth

[BAReFO0t]

But does it run Crysis?

(I know for a fact that it runs Unreal Tournament.)

Tab manager plus does this already

[blackest_k]

Tab manager plus
lets you search your open tabs in chrome, one of my most used add ons.

Jesus, how much of a hoarder are you?

[BAReFO0t]

If you got so many tabs, you need a search.

That's what bookmarks are for! You are literally using tabs as shitty bookmarks! Might aswell change the UI to display the bookmarks in the tabs style and tell those idiots it's tabs! (Firefox already did something like that by not loading tabs until you actually need to display the content. But of course they completely missed the point and went the other way, now having "collections", which are literally a duplication of bookmark folders!)

Seriously, is everyone g

Bluetooth

[Orlando]

Because the web browser is where we look for the battery levels of Bluetooth devices naturally.

Ffs