Chrome news — Web Standards

August 20
Field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel
An interactive walkthrough of the waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.
July 29
What’s new in Chrome 151
Media capture element, declarative slot assignment, and soft-navigation metrics.
July 2
What’s new in Chrome 150
System accent colors, polygon rounding, animatable zoom, url() modifiers, and text-fit.
June 4
What’s new in Chrome 149
CSS gap decorations, shape-outside functions, SVG path-length, crisp-edges, and back/forward cache for WebSocket.
May 15
Browsers treat big sites differently
How Safari and Firefox quietly patch the web to keep big sites working.
May 6
What’s new in Chrome 148
Name-only container queries, at-rule() in @supports, lazy <video> and <audio>, Prompt API, and more.
April 30
The web is fun again: first experiments with HTML in <canvas>
An experimental Chrome API that draws real HTML into <canvas>, with pixel and shader effects.
April 28
Automate the browser from the terminal with Chrome DevTools MCP CLI
A CLI that controls Chrome through shell commands instead of Puppeteer or Playwright.
April 8
What’s new in Chrome 147
View transitions, contrast-color(), border-shape, Math.sumPrecise, and more.
March 12
What’s new in Chrome 146
Scroll-triggered animations, Sanitizer API, WebGPU compat mode, and more.
February 20
Border-shape: the future of the non-rectangular web
New property makes borders, shadows, and outlines follow custom geometry.
February 17
What’s new in Chrome 145
New CSS typography properties, an Origin object, and shorter UA string by default.