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Chrome 89 Beta: Advanced Hardware Interactions, Web Sharing on Desktop, and More — Version 89 is now in beta and adds Web NFC support (by default on Android), the ability to decode AVIF image contents, full filter property support on SVGs, a few CSS changes, and more.

Privacy Sandbox in 2021: Testing A More Private Web — Last year Google announced their intention to phase out third-party cookies and replace them with new, more private, browser features — here’s an update on that effort.

On Chrome's Goal of Instant Experiences for the Whole Web — Chrome cares about speed and here they share details of their ideas about turning things up to 11 with prefetching and the use of a ‘private prefetch proxy.’

Giving Users and Developers More Control Over Focus — Chrome 86 introduces two new features that improve both the user and developer experience when it comes to working with focus. Here’s what you need to know.

Introducing Web Vitals: Essential Metrics for Healthy Sites — Web Vitals is a new Google initiative to provide guidance on quality signals (think first input delay, load speed, etc.) that are key to delivering good user experiences on the web.

Updates to Form Controls and Focus in Chrome — Here’s a closer look at the recent changes introduced to HTML form controls within Chrome, designed to “beautiful, webby, and neutral”. They bring with them a host of accessibility wins, touch support, and more consistent keyboard access.

Intent to Explain: Demystifying the Blink Shipping Process — How do features get added to Chrome? What process goes on behind the scenes to bring the latest Web features to Chromium, Blink, et al.? Here’s an overview of the process, and if you prefer a talk/video version, there’s one of those too.

How Google Wants to Move Towards a Faster Web — Chrome has announced plans to highlight whether a site is known for loading fast or slow. Quick sites will be ‘rewarded’ with a green loading bar, whereas slow sites will be flagged with an on-screen ‘badge of shame’.