Developers who are behind popular web browser "Google Chorme" released Few days ago important information about its development rate and some important news related to the browser.
And is that the problem that has developed around the contingency that you have due to Coronavirus (Covid-19) worldwide, it is has generated a slowdown in every way and not only in the economy as only the experts mention.
Well now software developers are beginning to feel the repercussions that are being generated due to quarantines or social isolation that is being carried out simultaneously in many countries in order to keep the number of infected people as low as possible.
And it is that even though many think that working at home for a developer is the best, the thing is not like that at the moment since not everyone is working normally and they are actually doing the best they can.
Given that Google has published new information on the suspension of development of the new versions of your Chrome web browser due to the temporary transfer of some employees to work at home due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic.
In addition, many others are detained in foreign countries until the stipulated days to travel have passed, while in other countries they have closed the acceptance of flights from abroad, among other measures.
It is because of that decided to skip the Chrome 82 release entirely y they better chose to start to work in the immediate development of the Chrome 83 branch.
With that the development of new features and everything that was planned in the launch of Google Chrome 82 will be moved to the new Chrome 83 branch.
In short, Google Chrome 83 will be a launch where all the features and news of both versions are accumulated, so it is expected that this next launch will come with a number of important changes.
Regarding the current stable branch, it is planned to keep the master branch in a more or less stable state, avoiding risky changes that could lead to a decrease in stability.
On the part of Google Chrome version 81 the developers mention that concontinue in beta testing until the next release which will be "Google Chrome 83" be ready for beta testing, after which Chrome 81 will be released.
According to the previous plan, Chrome 82 was scheduled to launch on April 28 and Chrome 83 on June 9, but Google intends to adjust the schedule based on the development progress of the Chrome 83 version.
With this it was announced that the next release of Google Chrome 81 is scheduled for April 7 and Chrome 83 is scheduled to launch on May 19.
On the part of the characteristics that have been released for Google Chrome 83, the developers mention that they are intended to return a setting that disables URL corruption in the address bar.
For a change was made to the codebaseor on the basis of which the version of Chrome 83, c will be formedon configuration support «chrome: // flags / # omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls«, After installation of which a flag will appear in the contextual menu of the address bar #Always show full URLs« to return the full display of URLs.
And it is that since the version of Google Chrome 76 the address bar was changed by default to show links without "https: //", "http: //" and "www.".
To disable this behavior, the setting "chrome: // flags / # omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains" was provided. In Chrome 79, this setting was removed and users lost the ability to display the full URL in the address bar.
This change caused dissatisfaction among many users and the Chrome developers agreed to add an option to show the full URL again in the address bar.
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