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Chrome ships WebGPU

The Chrome team ships WebGPU, which allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web.

Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)

We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions.

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.

"Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

Details of the Manifest V2 phase-out and end of life.

The <select> element can now be customized with CSS

All the same interfaces, sweet new looks.

It's always been you, Canvas2D

The API-next-door gets a makeover.

Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.

SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System

WebMCP is available for early preview

WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.

Memory safety for web fonts

Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.

Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023

New details about the plan to move extensions to Manifest V3

The Prompt API

Discover the infinite possibilities of the Prompt API.

Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

WebGPU is now available on Android

Support WebGPU on Android, use of DXC for shader compilation, timestamp queries in compute and render passes, default entry points to shader modules, support display-p3 as GPUExternalTexture color space, memory heaps info, and more.

Customizable HTML Select

An early look at the new customizable select feature.

Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting

Two competing syntaxes need your help in determining which should be championed through to a specification candidate.

What's Next for WebGPU

Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.

Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome

HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106

Web AI Model Testing: WebGPU, WebGL, and Headless Chrome

Discover our solutions for how to consistently automate browser testing and improve application performance.

Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning

A new API is coming to the web platform to help you position elements in an adaptive way with no tricks.

Removing XSLT for a more secure browser

Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.

New in Chrome 113

Chrome 113 is rolling out now! WebGPU is here, it allows high-performance 3D graphics and data-parallel computation on the web, devtools can now override network response headers, First Party Sets, part of the Privacy Sandbox, that allows organizations to declare related sites is starting to roll out, and there&#39;s…

Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows

The Edge team added support for respecting the Windows ClearType Tuner values in Chromium directly, resulting in better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows.

SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111

The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.

Introducing chrome.scripting

The Scripting API is a new Manifest V3 API focused on, well, scripting. Let&#39;s dig into the motivations for this change and how it&#39;s different.

Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions

In December of last year, we paused the planned deprecation of Manifest V2 in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues . As a result of this feedback, we’ve made a number of changes to Manifest V3 to close these gaps , including:

High Definition CSS Color Guide

CSS Color 4 brings wide gamut color tools and capabilities to the web.

Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome

Compression on the web is getting a big boost from shared dictionary compression. Learn what they are, how they work, and how they could substantially reduce load times even further than standard compression for both static and dynamic resources on the web.

WasmGC – Run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser

There are two types of programming languages: garbage-collected programming languages and programming languages that require manual memory management. With to WebAssembly Garbage Collection, garbage-collected languages can be ported to WebAssembly.

The <Geolocation> HTML Element

Discover the new way to request user location data.