It turns out that increasing the cadence of is not the only change that Google has planned for your browser. In a tweet located by 9to5Google (through XDA Developers), Chrome’s head of design, Alex Ainslie, detailed a new feature that makes it easier to test any experimental functionality Google is working on. Starting this week, the Canary version of the browser includes a cup icon where you can activate experimental features, as well as send feedback to the Chrome team.
🔬🔬 We hope to get more feedback on @Google Chrome updates as they are in development. If you’re using Canary today (and soon Dev and Beta), you’ll notice a small beaker on the toolbar that makes it easier to try new things and share suggestions on how it should evolve. pic.twitter.com/doPLzJbnRW
– Alex Ainslie (@alexainslie) March 5, 2021
In the past, experimenting with experiments on Chrome meant enabling flags. It made them difficult to access if you didn’t know what you were doing. It was also not easy to see at a glance which ones were activated. Ainslie said that Google is adding the menu to collect more feedback on updates as they are in development. To that end, the beaker icon will make its way to the developer and also to the beta versions of Chrome. This means that you won’t have to use the less stable version of Chrome to see what Google has in store for users.