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Is anyone else just getting tired and tired of the zoom app for chrome os? I mean come on its the most useless thing I've ever seen, it literally has no features whatsoever. I want to share my audio, no can do. I want to control screen, no can do. I want to change my frickin background, no can do.
Chrome OS handwriting apps? University students, what do you use?
I've read the big "State of Note Taking" post, but since it's 4 months old, I guess I'm hoping there's something new out there, or some new updates to the apps mentioned or something. I'm a university student, so I want a handwriting app that lends itself well to studying purposes. Any other university students using Chromebooks this way, I'd love to hear your setup. Here's what I've got:
Lenovo Flex 5 with Lenovo USI Stylus
Here's what I'm looking for:
Low latency
Excellent palm rejection. This is top priority.
The ability to import media and make mixed-media notes. The more types of media it lets me import and have in a single note, the better. Text, handwriting, pdfs, images, hyperlinks... if I can figure out how to import a powerpoint into it and mark that up, that would be ideal.
Infinite notes. This is also really important because 90% of the reason I bought this thing was so I could make huge mind-maps. I always run out of space on regular notebook paper. (If it can move infinitely both horizontally and vertically, that would be just perfect.)
Speaking of mind maps, a shape-drawing tool and a straight line-drawing tool.
A decent organizing system. Hierarchical organizing with notebooks is necessary. An additional tag system would be ideal, but it's not a requirement.
The ability to ctrl-F my notes would be pretty awesome, but my I recognize that even the best app may not be able to interpret my janky handwriting.
Different templates and backgrounds, the more the better.
Price isn't a huge issue, but I'd really prefer to pay up front rather than a subscription service.
Sync across multiple devices
Backup to Google Drive would be awesome
Ability to export notes as pdfs
And here's what I've tried so far:
Squid Everybody loves Squid, and it's definitely the best one I've tried so far. It's not the top performer in any category, but it has most of the features I want. I wish I could type AND write by hand. I also wish it backed up to Google Drive.
Google Keep had the lowest latency and best palm rejection, but it lacks a lot of features. No hierarchical organizing, limited mixed-media notes, etc.
Lecture Notes looked promising, but the latency was really bad and I couldn't get past it.
Handwrite Pro was the top performer in almost every category... except palm rejection. It would be almost perfect if it had decent palm rejection. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
MS OneNote Latency issues. Not quite as bad as Lecture Notes, but enough to be distracting. I didn't dig much further past that. If OneNote has literally everything else I'm looking for, I could probably get past the latency issues.
Evernote Best organization and syncing, low latency, okay palm rejection... no mixed media notes.
NoteShelf Serious latency issues. It doesn't handle switching from portrait to landscape and back very well. Top performer in the templates category. IMO, it doesn't really outperform the free apps.
Nebo This is a nifty little fucker. Overall, the best writing experience. Unfortunately, it doesn't support importing pdfs. It also lacks some features that I was surprised to find missing from an otherwise extremely impressive app - there's no customizing backgrounds, no templates, limited export/backup options, and the infinite scroll only goes in one direction. If there are no better options, this is probably the one I'll go with, and I'll just use something else to mark up pdfs.
Do any university students have a Chromebook, Google OS, Chrome OS tablet? Have you experienced any compatibility/connectivity issues at your school? I'm an engineering student at UVA, and I’m looking at the Google Pixel Slate as a supplement to my laptop; primarily for note-taking, pdf editing, recording lectures, sharing/submitting files, etc (maybe MATLAB...)... and I need to know if it will work for most things one might need to connect to on grounds. Where have you experienced shortfalls? NEW
Chrome OS Stable channel got promoted to Chrome OS 85. This is what changed!
https://preview.redd.it/w6v33efodnk51.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=64a402d6eafbe49d4660ca46a5599bfd6e3473e7 _All right crew! The Chrome OS Stable Channel got promoted to milestone today - from 84.0.4147.136 to 85.0.4183.84. As with every new milestone update, this brings massive new changes to the table, offering several new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements to better improve your Chrome OS user experience. Due to the sheer size, I may be missing a few things here and there. Here is what changed! Like my content and want to buy me a coffee?You can support me on ko-fi using this linkor by using the link in my Reddit profile. If you want to be kept up to date with everything new to Chrome OS, feel free to give me a follow. Thanks in advance for your support!! :) Accessibility
Color cursors: New accessibility feature flag to change cursor colors in Chrome OS. This feature has 5 colors for now: Red, Orange, Green, Blue, and Purple. Custom cursor colors are important for visibility to some users with vision impairment (e.g. color blindness).
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-accessibility-cursor-colors
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#enable-ambient-mode
Slideshow: new subpage that allows users to customize which album or category they want the Ambient slideshow to pick from. For example, you can customize the Ambient lock screen to show a particular family album on Google Photos, or a specific category of backgrounds curated by Google.
Behavior: Ambient lock screen will keep the screen on only when the charger is plugged in.
Behavior: Pressing any key on the keyboard will take you from the Ambient slideshow to the password page.
Behavior: Ambient lock screen will exit and switch to the password view when creating large mouse movements. Small mouse movements won’t do anything.
Android subsystem
Default apps: Replaced the Google Play Music Android app with YouTube Music Android app. This is done in preparation to fully migrate Google Play Music subscribers to YouTube Music. Note that upgrading to this version of Chrome OS may not uninstall Google Play Music.
Mic gain: the brand new mic gain feature is enabled by default, which allows you to quickly adjust your microphone sensitivity through the Shelf so your voice isn’t too loud or soft in a call.
Login Screen: The login screen will now display system notifications (update notifications, low battery, etc.)
Window Management: Fixed windows not restoring to their original windowed size when flinging the window up to maximize, dragging the window down and flinging up again to maximize, and clicking the unmaximize icon in the window controls.
Window management: New animation when dragging a maximized window down from the top to unmaximize it.
Shelf: The app scaling feature flag is enabled by default. This shrinks the app icons size when the user exceeds the available space to add an additional app icon in tablet mode. Personally, I wish this app icon resizing also occurs in clamshell mode, but this is a good step in the right direction.
Login screen: the lock screen media controls will hide when closing your Chromebook’s lid or if your device sleeps.
Launcher search: Google Play store search in the launcher is enabled by default, which allows you to quickly find an app on the Google Play store through launcher search.
Status Area: Resized tooltip text size in the shelf quick settings bubble to avoid truncation for long labels. This also includes adding a length limit to tooltips used in the status tray.
Multi display: Fixed app scaling not applying to hidden or extended shelf (shelf that displays on a secondary display) after screen rotates.
Shelf: Fixed a bug that caused app icons size to increase on the shelf or launcher when dragging it with the context menu open.
App drawer: fixed a sync bug where dragging and dropping an app from one launcher page to another on one device will incorrectly create a new launcher page with another device.
Overview mode: right click to access the context menu will be suppressed when right clicking the Virtual desk name.
Login screen: New policy to allow SAML users to be set through the online flow on the lock screen in order to verify and sync their password.
Multi display: Opening apps from the Shelf or launcher context menu will properly open new windows in the same display as they were launched from. Previously, windows were always opened in the display of the last active window.
Launcher: Users can close the launcher search bar by swiping left while in tablet mode.
Launcher: The launcher won’t show a drag handle on top if the Shelf is set to show on the side instead of the bottom.
Shelf: the context menu app icon sizes (right-click the apps on the shelf) will have consistent sizes.
Window management: Fixed a small bug where the multi-window resizer widget (the resize vertical rectangle when hovering cursor in between two snapped windows) would persist during the Overview mode transition.
Login screen: changed the Wi-Fi icon from black to white to improve legibility.
Login screen: Relanded change to show enterprise disclosure as a bottom status indicator in the login/lock screen.
Shelf: Fixed a bug where the material design ripple effect when long pressing or clicking app icons on the Shelf would randomly get misaligned.
Login screen: The login screen clock will change clock type (12hr, 24hr) depending on the settings specified on the user profile. If the primary account is using a 12 hour clock and they add a secondary account that uses a 24 hour clock, clicking on the secondary account in the login screen will switch the clock type from 12 hours to 24 hours.
Notifications: Critical system warning notifications will no longer get filtered by Do not disturb.
Virtual desks: New experimental feature flag that limits items on the shelf to the ones associated with windows on the active desk.
Boost your virtual desk productivity now by enabling chrome://flags/#ash-limit-shelf-items-to-active-desk
Virtual Desks: Virtual desk area now uses the same color as the Shelf to be more consistent with the color scheme. Previously, the virtual desk area used a persistent dark gray color.
Google Assistant Media Session integration is turned on by default. This means when you ask the Google Assistant to pause music, it’ll pause the music instead of “this feature is unsupported”.
Camera app
Video: you can pause and resume video recording, and take a still snapshot while recording.
File: Videos are automatically saved in MP4 format, which makes it easy to share them with friends and edit videos in other apps.
Shutter: Added a sound effect to the pause and resume button when recording a video. The sound effect is identical to Google’s camera app on a Pixel device when pressing the pause and resume button.
Chrome
Memory: Improved resource consumption when a window is covered by other windows.
Javascript throttling: New feature flag that throttles javascript timers to 1 wake up per minute in the background. Local experiments conducted by Google conclude that throttling javascript timers to 1 wake up per minute can extend battery life from 4 hours and 42 minutes, to 5 hours and 18 minutes, when YouTube is playing in the foreground and 36 tabs are opened in the background.
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#intensive-wake-up-throttling
Performance: increased the browser tab loading performance up to 10% thanks to profile guided optimizations, which allows the most critical part of the code to work faster.
Tab Groups: The tab groups feature flag is enabled by default. You will now be able to organize your tabs into groups and collapse them.
Privacy Redesign: the privacy redesign feature flag is enabled by default, which makes managing cookies, passwords, and privacy settings more intuitive. This includes using secure DNS to improve your security and privacy while browsing the web.
Safety Check: Chrome should now have a built-in safety check feature, which checks for compromised passwords and dangerous websites to keep you safe.
Tab Hover Previews: the tab hover previews flag is enabled by default. You’ll now be able to hover your cursor over tabs to quickly see a small thumbnail preview of that page.
Incognito: Incognito mode will automatically block third-party cookies so websites cannot use cookies to track you on the web. This feature adds a nifty toggle to turn this feature on or off.
PDF viewer: you will now be able to fill out and save PDFs in Chrome
Memory: Dynamic tcmalloc is enabled by default, which adjusts tcmalloc's thread cache sizes in response to memory pressure. Experimentally this improved the number of loadable tabs on low end Chromebooks by 10% while also reducing tab switch times by nearly 5%.
Fixed a bug that caused the incorrect tab URL to be seen on the New Tab Page’s hover card after cancelling “Turn on Sync” overlay.
Permissions: Chrome will now show the quiet notification permission UI for sites known to trick users into accepting the notification permission.
Permissions: new permission “chip” feature flag featuring a slick design when a website asks the user for permissions.
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#permission-chip
Chrome OS Print preview: tweaked the dropdown design. There is a new printer icon next to the printer name with a colored status bubble to indicate the printer status. Also, various fixes to the drop down came with this build of Chrome OS, including fixing labels from overflowing the input field and properly displaying the status underneath the dropdown.
Chrome OS Print preview: the print preview will show the printer status of USB printers by informing users that the USB printer is currently connected or disconnected to the device.
WebUI Tab strips: new drag animation when dragging tab groups.
WebUI New Tab page: interactive doodles will now display on themed new tab page.
Fixed not being able to drag and drop files when opening the media controls in the Chrome toolbar.
GPU: New Chrome flag that uses Skia Deferred Display Lists when performing rasterizations in the GPU process. With the flag enabled, the raster decoder will record raster work into a deferred display list first, and then play it back into a SkSurface. For now, recording and playing back are on the GPU main thread. In future, the recording could be moved to raster worker threads. This feature further reduces the CPU load and moves some of the work to the GPU, saving battery and improving performance.
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#enable-oop-rasterization-ddl
Client storage: New flag that records the first-party contexts in which client-side storage was accessed.
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#client-storage-access-context-auditing
Clear browsing: New feature flag that puts a new installed apps warning dialog to the clear browsing data flow to prevent users from accidentally deleting installed apps’ data.
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#installed-apps-in-cbd
Audio: Initial support of 5.1 and 7.1-channel surround sound audio of Chrome on Chrome OS. This is big news for Stadia gamers since this brings surround sound to the gaming experience. I don't have a surround sound audio system to test this, but if you do, let me know in the comments if it works!
Notifications: Chrome will silently notify users on the right side of the URL bar when websites attempt to abuse notification content
Password check: fixed password check banner illustration from exceeding the width of the settings columns when window shrinks to a small size.
Gamepad: Added gamepad mappings for ELECOM controllers (JC-U4013SBK and JC-U4113SBK) when they’re in Direct Input (“D”) mode.
DevTools: Chrome DevTools now supports editing programmatically constructed stylesheet objects.
Print preview: Fixed unable to tab to select sections in print preview after clicking the zoom out icon.
Storage: New feature flag that tells Chrome to inform applications about your device’s low disk space. This allows them to adjust their caching strategy and ensure a smooth and uninterrupted experience for their users.
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#enable-storage-pressure-event.
PDF viewer: increased the page selector minimum width and padding.
Chrome OS Settings
Settings search: The brand new Chrome OS settings search feature is enabled by default. Unlike the old search that used exact string matching, this search uses fuzzy search algorithms to suggest sections of Chrome OS settings, making it easier to search for settings
Wi-Fi sync: Wi-Fi sync feature flag is enabled by default. This will allow Chrome OS to sync Wi-fi network configurations with Chrome sync. This is useful for users who connected to several different networks before and can’t remember what the passwords are. When you enter a Wi-Fi password on your personal profile on one Chromebook, that info is securely saved with your account even when you log in to another Chromebook.
Display settings: fixed a bug where the resolution drop-down could get disabled when changing an external monitor’s display resolution.
Display modes: The list all display modes feature flag is enabled by default. This means that separate refresh rate and resolution dropdowns will be shown in Chrome OS Display settings when an external display is connected.
Network: Fixed small oversight with the Add Wi-fi and VPN dialogs that caused the two dialogs to have no shadow or border.
Smart Inputs: New “Manage personal information” link under “Smart inputs” that links users to Chrome setting’s “Address and more”.
Smart Inputs: New toggle in Smart inputs under the Language and inputs category that disables emoji suggestions.
Icons: Updated Wi-Fi and Mobile data network icons to Google Material outline theme.
Fixed a visual bug with the Chrome OS settings search bar where clicking the search bar would cause it to grow larger than the inactive search bar. Also fixes the strange search bar corners.
Network: The “Metered network” feature is disabled by default, which brought a metered network toggle to Wi-Fi and Cellular connection into Chrome OS settings.
To get this toggle back, enable chrome://flags/#show-metered-toggle
Family Link
Permissions: When a child account tries to modify the timezone preference, a parent must provide an access code to apply the changes.
Permissions: When a managed user attempts to launch a restricted app from the launcher, they will have a new dialog that asks for parent permission if the parent has the “permissions for sites, apps and extensions” toggle enabled; otherwise the user will have an error dialog. Previously, clicking an app that is disabled pending approval does nothing.
Clock: The clock format will change on the child’s lock screen depending on what they switch on in the “Use 24-hour clock” preference.
Files app
Sort: The sort column icon was flipped so the arrow points up when sorting in ascending order.
File type: The files app will now be able to identify AMR files as sound files instead of text files.
Format dialog: Slightly tweaked the format dialog by removing the close button and changing the spacing between the bottom form field and the bottom buttons.
Archive: Slightly tweaked the dialog style for password-protected zips by changing the padding and fonts sizes in the dialog.
Behavior: The files app will now refresh when there are changes in Linux files or other FUSE systems.
Fixed .opus sound files not showing audio icon in the files app.
Context menu: New dropdown menus to "Open with" and "More Actions" when right-clicking a file type in the files app, which allows you to quickly change default apps for that file type. IMO: this is a big improvement compared to using the files app’s toolbar.
Context menu: You will now be able to “Go to file location” when a single file is selected in Recents, Audio, Images, or Videos. This is a small change with a HUGE productivity benefit.
Fixed a bug where saving an HTML file as “single file” incorrectly creates “.html” instead of “mhtml”.
The “Save as” dialog will automatically attach file extensions.
Context menu: Fixed a bug where the sub menus that hang off the right-click context menu can get clipped when the files app window is shrunk horizontally to its minimum width. This bug fix will allow sub menus to slightly overlap.
Save as: Fixed a regression where the “Save as” dialog prompt does not respond to the up/down key arrow after invoking Shift + Tab.
Sharing: Fixed a visual bug where a double horizontal line would appear above “this folder is shared with Linux” after sharing a folder to Linux (Beta).
Input
Virtual keyboard: the brand new bordered virtual keyboard design is enabled by default, which adds a fresh new coat of Google Material theme to the virtual keyboard. This design will not work for languages other than English.
Port forwarding: the port forwarding feature flag is enabled by default. This allows you to make Linux ports available to other devices on your network. It will forward ports on the interface of the highest priority network instead of always forwarding ports on wlan0.
USB: The Crostini USB allow unsupported feature flag is enabled by default. This should allow developers to mount their USB serial devices to their Chromebook without having to change a flag. Your mileage may vary as some serial devices will not work (FTDI, CH341, etc).
Disk resizing: The crostini disk resizer will suggest a recommended disk size for users who want to increase or decrease disk size.
Mic sharing: Enabling the crostini mic sharing toggle will prompt you to restart the Linux container.
USB: When a newly plugged in device reports multiple interfaces and at least one of them is “notifiable”, Chrome OS will notify the user. Previously, all interfaces needed to be “notifiable”.
Fixed Chrome OS not upgrading the Linux (Beta) container when there are dpkg locks.
Fixed crostini apps incorrectly using the cube icon instead of the penguin icon as fallback.
USB: Chrome OS will suppress notifications for devices with forbidden interfaces (e.g. docking stations that have HID and vendor-specific interface, external monitors connected through USB).
Media App SWA
This experimental feature is still in development. To try it out, you'll need to enable a Chrome flag. Copy-paste the following URL and change the dropdown from "Default" to "Enable": chrome://flags/#media-app
Files: You can now launch multiple files simultaneously with the media app by selecting them with your Chromebook’s files app. Previously, selecting two files in the files app and selecting “Open with Gallery” by right-click would only open one file. This update now allows you to launch multiple files with “Open with Gallery”.
Files: When launching a file in a directory, the Media app SWA will asynchronously load every other related file in that directory to speed up file loading.
OOBE (first-boot setup)
Account: Prevent ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID error from showing up when setting up the Chromebook on a slow network.
Account: Administrators will now be able to disable Chromebooks that have been pre-provisioned but not yet enrolled. This means that managed Chromebooks will immediately become disabled, even when going through the OOBE first-boot setup.
Notifications: System notifications (Wi-Fi, battery, etc) will not be suppressed during the first-boot process.
Print jobs app
Print jobs app: the brand new print jobs app is enabled by default. This allows users to manage and view their print history on Chrome OS. The print job app will display ongoing print jobs and will dynamically update depending on the status of the job.
When a print job notification shows up in Chrome OS, tapping on the notification will open the print jobs management app
New policy to prevent managed users from deleting their print history. When the restriction is in place, the delete history button will be disabled.
PWAs
Sync: Web app icons for Chrome OS will update when manifest data is updated.
Autostart: New feature flag that allows users to auto-start PWAs when the user signs into Chrome OS. When prompted to install a PWA, Chrome will offer a new checkbox asking the user if they want to run the PWA after signing into Chrome OS. To try this out, enable chrome://flags/#enable-desktop-pwas-run-on-os-login
Quick Answers
Quick Answers will accept keyboard accessibility inputs.
Fixed a bug where the Quick answers feature would not get focused after pressing the Up or Down arrow on the keyboard.
Wallpaper picker app
Localized wallpaper picker app name
Wallpaper picker app will be searchable from the launcher.
The nitty-gritty stuff
This advanced section is a long list of things changed that impacts web developers and enterprise users. There are a lot more nitty-gritty stuff in the full changelog linked below, but this list coversthe most important Blink and Chrome changesintroduced in this release cycle. Blink
New Bluetooth.getDevices() method that allows sites to easily reconnect to permitted Web Bluetooth devices. Previously, Chrome’s implementation of Web Bluetooth did not have a way for websites to get a list of permitted devices. See this developer document for more details.
New writeValueWithResponse()and writeValueWithoutResponse() to web bluetooth. This helps improve read and write performance on some devices.
Interested web developers should test this out by enabling chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features
Fixed display:inline for not using a “true” CSS inline box when it’s not displaying an image fallback.
Fixed Chrome not honoring CSS dimensions if the doesn’t have a src but has a title attribute.
Web Serial API: addressed a WebIDL issue that causes SerialPort.setSignals()to fail if empty signals dictionary.
Pointer lock: fixed a pointer lock bug where activating pointer lock in mousemove listener won’t allow cancelling with ‘escape’ or ‘Alt + Tab’ keys.
Chrome now supports the counter-set CSS property, which sets a CSS counter to a given value.
Implemented the media element show poster flag, which makes the behavior of poster rendering consistent with other browsers. This removes the old element DisplayMode.
WebRTC: Added adaptivePTime to RTCRtpEncodingParameters, which adds an origin trial for real-time communication applications (Google Meet as an example) to optimize their bandwidth usage so that they can alleviate network congestion.
Storage privacy: fixed a regression caused by Quota where clearing all browser data takes a long time to delete.
Layout: Removed anonymous block wrapper when in line continuation is removed, which helps multicol keep track of what is regular column content and what are spanners.
Flexbox: Fixed a bug where Chrome would not consistently position HTML content inside a flex cell, which prevented developers from creating offset to cells.
Paint: Fixed a bug where the Select Element text gets cut off until the viewport gets resized
Forms: fixed a bug where OPTION should be selected when multiple selected OPTIONs are added by jQuery append().
Layout: Limit PositionForPointInInlineBox() to process inline boxes only.
Renderer: improved performance of client-side phishing detection’s visual feature extraction, which reduces renderer hangs.
Service Worker: fixed Chrome locking up with large amounts of service workers
New String.prototype.replaceAll function that helps developers to global-replace strings without having to escape RegExp syntax characters. See this developer document for more details.
New Promise.any() and AggregateError functions. Promise.any() accepts promises and returns a promise that is fulfilled by the first given promise to be fulfilled, or rejected with an AggregateError holding the rejection reasons if all of the given promises are rejected. AggregateError is a support class that aggregates one or more errors into a single object. See a snippet of what it is here.
New Logical assignment operators ||=, &&=, and ??= to Javascript. This is an incremental improvement for shipping terser, clearer Javascript.
Corrected silence detecting condition in Web Audio. The silence detection should be activated when there are no automatic pull nodes, or the local destination node has an active input connection.
Fixed a bug that caused fonts in fixed-position to appear blurry due to a directly composited layer (triggered by backface-visibility:hidden) with a fractional transform.
Fixed gradient list marker image growing massively when zooming.
Fixed positioned SVG backgrounds unstable with zoom or transitions due to sub-pixel snapping.
New BluetoothDevice.watchAdvertisements() method to enable web apps to receive events when the system receives an advertisement packet from a watched device. This API will allow web apps to detect whether a device is unresponsive because it has gone out of range by listening for advertisement packets from the device.
Fixed rendering drop shadow blur when fillStyle is CanvasPattern with transparency.
Fixed requestPointerLock breaking event.preventDefault for wheel events
Add willReadFrequently attribute to CanvasRenderingContext2DSettings. This helps improve performance for read access. Developers can test this now by enabling chrome://flags/#new-canvas-2d-api
Fixed wrong intrinsic size when orthogonal items are baseline aligned and column's max-sizing function determines the size of the CSSgrid.
Fixed range inputs now look rather broken if they had certain styles e.g. padding applied to them.
Fixed option text not selected to a select box if option has child elements.
Fixed Alt text on broken images overriding CSS dimensions.
Fixed SVG CSS not repositioning with percent translate when parent resizes.
Fixed aspect-ratio not handling min/max content contributions correctly.
Scroll Unification: implemented page-based scrolling in the compositor. Page based scrolling is used in three situations: PageUp/PageDown keys, Main thread scrollbar scrolling, and wheel when a scroll-by-page setting is enabled.
Bluetooth: added getDevices() web feature.
Fixed text not automatically scrolling into view until the page’s scroll offset resets to the top with certain links.
SVG: fixed animation of stop-color with currentcolor on not working.
Viz: fixed page freezing when moving mouse or scrolling page with iframe inside another iframe with href target = blank (needed for asynchronous hit-test event).
Fixed SVG CSS not repositioning with percent translate when parent resize
Chrome
Devtool Fixed not being able to create a new style rule for ::marker.
Devtool: new option to make a11y info optional in inspector overlay
Extensions: new enterprise.networkingAttribute API that reads the device’s local IP and MAC address if it is connected to a network. This API is only available to force-installed extensions.
Preconnect: Addressed a security flaw by removing loading predictor preconnect for pretenders, which had the potential to leak user information during an isolated prerender.
Enterprise
Legacy Browser Support is now built into Chrome. The developers plan on removing the Legacy Browser extension on the Chrome web store when Chrome 86 rolls out.
Insecure pages will no longer be able to make requests to IPs belonging to more private address spaces. Example: https://example.com won’t be able to make requests targeting 192.168.0.1. A policy will be provided to disable this mechanism.
Cross-origin fetches are being blocked from content scripts in Chrome extensions.
Removed ability to define wildcards for PluginsAllowedForUrl policy in Chrome 85. This is another step to prepare for the Flash deprecation at the end of this year.
Grant permissions to the Imprivata login screen to use chrome.platformKeys and chrome.enterprise.platformkeys (_permission_features.json).
The Emoji suggesting feature is disabled by default for enterprise customers. This setting is under a new emoji suggestion policy.
Disabled EnumerateDevicesHideDeviceIDs on Chrome OS which caused issues in some enterprise Chrome OS setups in the past.
Platform changes
This part covers the most significant platform changes I found in this build, from platform version13099.110.0to13310.59.0. Platform updates typically include low level changes like kernel, driver updates, and other device-specific fixes. Linux 4.4
Updated kernel to Linux 4.4.228.
Bluetooth: stopped Bluetooth from scanning if paused.
Linux 4.14
Updated kernel to Linux 4.14.185.
Linux 4.19
Update kernel to Linux 4.19.129
Bluetooth: bluetooth will terminate the link if the user decides to cancel the ongoing pairing process. This should prevent bluetooth devices (e.g. bluetooth keyboard) from retrying to pair again.
Broadcom Wireless: Fixed connection problems with WPA3 Wi-Fi.
Kukui: fixed back-light turning on before video when the Lenovo Duet and Lenovo 10e Chromebook Tablet boots up.
Linux 5.4
Updated kernel to Linux 5.4.48.
Bluetooth: bluetooth will terminate the link if the user decides to cancel the ongoing pairing process. This should prevent bluetooth devices (e.g. bluetooth keyboard) from retrying to pair again.
Broadcom Wireless: Fixed connection problems with WPA3 Wi-Fi.
Libapps
Terminal: the nassh powerline fonts will be loaded on startup.
Enterprise platform: fixed an issue where the Smart Card Connecter app was unable to interface with a Dell Smart Card Reader keyboard.
Smart unlock: fixed a bug where power cycling the Chromebook, logging in, and locking the screen causes Smart Lock feature to disappear.
Overlays
Kukui: initial on-device Assistant support to Lenovo 10e Chromebook Tablet and the Lenovo Chromebook Duet/Lenovo IdeaPad Duet devices. This brings on-device Google Assistant to your Chromebook, which should significantly speed up Assistant responses to commands like “tell me a joke” or “open Google Play Music”. However, I do not have any of these devices to confirm if this feature works.
To test, you’ll need to enable chrome://flags/#enable-on-device-assistant
Atlas: added 24 FPS video range for video conferencing applications on the Pixelbook Go. Since 24FPS is common for video conferencing, your Pixelbook Go will use 24 FPS instead of 30 FPS when conferencing, which improves battery life and performance.
Grunt: updated the HP Chromebook 14, HP Chromebook 11, Acer Chromebook 315, Acer Chromebook Spin 311, and Lenovo 14e touchpad firmware
Attestation: changed the flow in SignEnterpriseChallenge to include customer_id instead of domain name for enrolled Chromebooks.
Sharing My Appreciation For Chrome OS And My Pixelbook Go! I recently bought this and switched to it as my main laptop, and it's made a world of difference. I can work and play happier, for longer. Just the pure focus on the tasks instead managing the system make it such a breeze. Much love!
As a follow-up to the post I shared about Zoom acknowledging the issues on Chrome OS (https://www.reddit.com/chromeos/comments/ilsuca/acknowledgment_from_zoom_about_chromebook_issues/), I just received an email from Zoom stating that there was a new update to address these issues. Here is their email to me: "We received an update from the engineering team, there's a new version of Zoom for Chrome OS. Please download Version 5.0.0 (4183.0920) Updated September 21, 2020 * Performance improvement for low performance devices (Celeron N3350/N3060, AMD A4-9120C and others) Dertails * limit camera capture resolution to 320x240 (before: 640*480) * limit camera capture fps to 10 (before: up to 30fps) * limit video render fps to 10 (before: up to 30fps) * limit audio encoder to SILK wideband 45kbps (before: SILK super-wideband 70kbps) Two more best practices for low performance Chrome devices: 1. Turn OFF Google play if Android apps are not needed (this may cause very high CPU usage at any time to download/check something). 2. Turn OFF Bluetooth if it is not needed (high CPU usage seen from the Bluetooth backend service)" Hopefully this will correct the issues many of us have been experiencing.
Issues with Stadia on Lenovo Duet running latest Chrome OS
I know there are a number of Lenovo Duet owners who use it to play Stadia so I figured I'd see if anyone else was experiencing the same issue I am. I'm on the latest version 85.0.4183.133 and whenever I launch a game it tells me to press any key to make it full screen. After that I just see a black screen and then it kicks itself out of full screen then....nothing. Sometimes the game will finally start after opening and closing a few times but it seems to be somewhat related to linking my Stadia controller to the game session via the code. I experienced this with a past version and then it got fixed. I am wondering if this is a regression with the latest version. Has anyone else experienced this?
Does anyone have a Chromebook, Google OS, chrome OS tablet on grounds? Have you experienced any compatibility issues? I'm an engineering student, and I’m looking at the Google Pixel Slate as a supplement to my laptop; primarily for note-taking, pdf editing, recording lectures, sharing/submitting files, etc... and I need to know if it will work for most things you need to connect to on grounds. Where have you experienced shortfalls? NEW
Not an admin, but parent. Have a personal HP Chromebook 14 with the AMD A4 processor that we attempted to use for my daughter's remote classes. Immediately ran into the Zoom CPU usage issue. Luckily we had a school Chromebook she could use. I tested the Zoom on her Chromebook with a meeting started on my HP Windows 10 Laptop. I was able to recreate the robotic sounding mic and glitchy camera and see the high CPU usage on her screen. I just updated the OS to 85.0.4183.133 and recreated the test I had done previously. The robotic sound is gone, the video is no longer glitchy, no CPU usage warning. I opened task manager and saw the CPU topping out in the 60s. I may have her try it with her class again tomorrow. I'll report back when I do.
There is a bug in chrome os 85 recently that is causing a google play service to use 100% cpu for lengths of time making the affected devices very slow and hard to use. We have quite a few Acer chromebook 14 units that are being affected. I have turned off play store for the affected devices via the google additional services but I still am seeing the bug and play store available. Is there anything else I can do until google fixes the issue in the next update?
I have been trying to download it, but I cannot find a way to download it. I thought that the Adastra sub would help me on this. Please, I can't be the only one with this problem. Note: I have tried Itch.io and it didn't work 2nd note: I downloaded to my phone, so stop responding
Does Stadia have any Chrome/Chrome OS version requirements?
I have been looking for a cheap way to hook up Stadia to my TV and I came across many listings for Chromeboxes on eBay for around $50. Most of these are older models with only a few still being current and able to be updated. So I spent last night searching for chrome requirements but found a good bit of conflicting information from both Google and users and hoped that someone here might have a definitive answer.
We are hoping to upgrade our Chrome OS remote support off of Chrome Remote Desktop to a paid system that lets our support agents remote in and access the device (beyond view-only) and provides two or more of the following:
unattended access (No PIN) as an option
list of devices
Gsuite touchless deployment (devices are remote)
We tried Splashtop but the support agent said it was view only for Chrome OS. Anydesk support says it crashes after a few minutes at best. Dameware says no Chrome OS remote-in support., Teamviewr says view only, as does Connectwise. Join Me and Log Me In seem to have no Chrome OS remote-in support too.
Argh. I love Google Photos, and I love Chromebooks, but OMG I hate the way they're integrated/not integrated! Mom uses her Chromebook to share photos by using Google Photos' (Web) garbage Facebook 'Share' button, which results in a FB post with a stupid GP link. Ugh. (No -- I won't try to teach her to first download the photo into her Files, and then find, and upload that photo from her Files into a FB post). Then I try to view that link on my Chromebook, and Chrome OS insists on launching my Photos Android app, and I don't even get to see the photo I clicked. The only way I can actually see the full photo is to right-click, and open her link in an incognito tab. So clunky, and broken both for sharing photos, and for viewing photos.
Google’s Chrome OS is built on an open-source project named Chromium OS. Google doesn’t offer builds of Chromium OS you can install yourself, but Neverware is a company that takes this open-source code and creates Neverware CloudReady. Chrome OS is made for Chromebooks that are designed to be lightweight and simple. Google does all of the updates. It’s one of the simplest operating systems you can get. Chromium OS is an unofficial open-source version of Chrome OS, and it can work with all devices including Mac, Linux, and Windows. Welcome to the Chrome channel. Google's operating system started off in December 2010 as being little more than all Chrome, all the time. Updates made since then have given Chrome OS users better ... Chrome OS and Chromium OS . Chrome OS is based on Chromium OS. Chromium OS is an open-source project that anyone (really) can copy, modify, and use in any way they like. That means you could get pretty close to a Chrome OS experience by installing Chromium OS on a computer. It does take some rather technical expertise, however. Chrome OS is designed as an operating system for computers that are only used for connecting to the internet. This means that Chrome OS is usually used for web browsing, streaming video and music, and online document editing.
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Chrome OS (aka Chromium) is the operating system found in every Google Chromebook. In this tutorial, David will show you how this simple operating system cou... This updated tutorial (2019) could help you to Install ChromeOS (cloudready) in VMWare (virtual disk) or any PC or Laptop directly. This lightweight Operatin... This is how you can install Chrome OS on any PC... ⏺All DOWNLOAD Links are here https://kil0bit.blogspot.com/2020/04/full-guide-how-to-in... Hello! Welcome to this Channel! We create tutorials on how to install popular applications on a Chromebook as well as quick facts videos on new Chromebooks. ... A guided tour of Chrome OS. For more information, visit http://google.com/chromebook.
