Chrome automatically changes between dark and light mode on PC

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Good news forGoogle Chromeusers: the new version forGoogle Chrome74 will come up with a series of improvements that you’ll definitely love.

Also, for those who useWindows 10, there will be afew special featuresincluded.

New Chrome features on Windows 10

Dark Mode support for Windows

Thebrowserwill automatically update when the default app mode. This means that you enabled dark mode onWindows 10, thebrowserwill also automatically switch to dark mode.

This also works for the Light theme. It will be quickly applied for tabs, for bookmarks, new tabs and different menus.

New options: Reduce motion or Remove animations

This feature will help a lot theusersthat get motion sickness when they will look at WebPages with zooming effects, parallax and transition animations.

While manyusersenjoy such animations, someusersdislike them because they feel distracted or slowed down from them. In the worst case,usersmay even suffer from motion sickness as if it were a real life experience, so for theseusersreducing animations is a medical necessity.

Better protection against malicious downloads

Google Chrome74 it will offer also solutions for better protection againstmalicious downloads. Besides the well known flag that that is available already, Google wants to provideuserswith additional protection.

Even though additional security checks are done inChromeand the operating system, we feel blocking downloads in sand-boxed iframes also fits the general thought behind the sandbox. Apart from security concerns, it would be a more pleasantuserexperience for a click to trigger a download on the same page, compared with downloads starting automatically when auserlands on a new page, or started non-spontaneously after the click.

The final version of GoogleChrome74 is expected to land on April 23. The beta version is already available and you can test these improvements before they hit the general public.

Chrome automatically changes between dark and light mode on PC#

New Chrome features on Windows 10#

Dark Mode support for Windows#

New options: Reduce motion or Remove animations#

Better protection against malicious downloads#

Chrome automatically changes between dark and light mode on PC

New Chrome features on Windows 10

Dark Mode support for Windows

New options: Reduce motion or Remove animations

Better protection against malicious downloads