The most popular browser on Android is Google Chrome although there are many alternatives in the Play Store. With a clear dominance, Google, on the other hand, has not rested on its laurels and continues to update both the desktop and smartphone versions. Just a month ago, four new features were added to improve the user experience.
And from what we read in Android Authority, now comes a fairly small change that means, however a very useful addition: Browsing history provides details about the websites we have visited, separating what we have viewed in the browser itself and in other applications from the Mountain View giant.
A small change to better identify our history
In addition to going back on its plan to eliminate cookies, Google, or rather the Google Chrome team, continues to give new capabilities to the already complete web browser. On this occasion, it is a small change that, even if it seems trivial, will help us to better understand the story.
So far, Google Chrome history not only collects the web pages we have visited, listed chronologicallybut it also mixes them with others that we were able to visit from sister apps such as News or Google’s (the one that contains the Discover news carousel).
This is why we can find ourselves with some doubts about when and how we accessed certain websites. However, the American firm has introduced the small change we were talking about precisely to solve this problem: it currently says which application each history entry comes from.
It was an X user (Artem Russakovskii) who spotted this subtle difference that is coming to Google Chrome for Android.
In the screenshots we can see, under some links, the application in which they were visited. Image by @ArtemR
As can be seen in these screenshots, under the title of the visited URL, next to the website domain, appears the application from which it was visited. This indicator will avoid some confusion: we will always know how we visited that page.
This is a rather timid update, which many users would surely not notice. For others, accustomed to using different applications from the American firm, it is a relief compared to correctly identify each visit to the network. In addition, applications increasingly want us to stay there, with integrated browsers.
In this way, and if it opens to save links from other applications, it is a very useful change. At the moment, this indicator does not appear on our phones, but it should be there soon since there is no longer any mystery. It is not known if this addition will be done through a browser updateor on the server side.
Via | Android Authority
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