The most used browser in the world, both on PC and smartphone, is Google Chrome. Recently, this tool has been updated and integrates a new type of floating notification that can be quite annoying. The new ones floating notifications of the Chrome browser are located at the top, below the tabs, and are used to confirm actions and make tracking adjustments.
You should know that the Google Chrome browser is not only the most used, it also serves as a “base” for other browsers. Microsoft Edge, for example, is based on Chromium, which is precisely the basis of the popular Google browser.
Periodically, the company releases updates to it. One part of these is adding new functions and/or features that enrich the user experience. In addition, security fixes, vulnerabilities and any other problems that have been detected are added.
Chrome Toast’s new floating notifications
Currently, this new feature does not appear to be available to everyone at the moment. As far as we know, at the moment it is only for those in the developer program who have access to Beta versions of the browser. They test these new solutions and detect possible failures.
They have, at the moment, two quite specific functions, this floating notification. The first is that when you right click on a link and click on the ‘Copy link’ option, this new element appears that says ‘Link copied’.
On the other hand, when we right click on a tab and select ‘add page to reading list’ we will see this floating element ‘Page added to reading list’. Included here is an option to open the page within the reading list.
You should know that, at the moment, there is no possibility of deactivating this function within the ‘Settings’ of the browser. Although, indeed, we can deactivate this function, but from another point.
The first thing we must do is write chrome://flags in the browser bar. Next, in the internal search engine we must write ‘toasts’ so that this option appears. Now, we must click on the drop-down menu that offers a variety of options.
‘Enabled’ will probably appear, although it may not work when you perform one of the two supported actions. Then, we have several ‘Enabled’ options with timing of 8, 10 or 12 seconds. This tells us how long this type of floating notification will appear on the screen.
As it could not be otherwise, we have the ‘Disabled’ option that deactivates this function. The truth is that this function does not offer anything relevant, so it is still better to disable it. After selecting the option that interests us, we have to close and open the Chrome browser for the change to take effect.
Maybe this option does not appear in ‘flags’ and if it appears, it may not work for you. This feature is experimental and it is possible that, if users do not adopt it with interest, it will end up disappearing. If it stays, it is possible that it will end up being integrated into ‘Appearance’ within the ‘Settings’ of the browser.
It doesn’t seem particularly interesting to us and we have disabled this option, although we didn’t get these pop-up notifications. Certainly, there are other more interesting aspects that Google could improve in its browser, such as the use and management of RAM.
