Best of Google Chrome — June 2025

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    A new way to style gaps in CSS

    CSS gap decorations is a new feature available in Chrome and Edge 139 that allows developers to style gaps between items in flex, grid, and multi-column layouts without using border or pseudo-element workarounds. The feature extends the column-rule property to work with grid and flexbox layouts and introduces a new row-rule property. It offers benefits like no layout impact, repeat syntax for patterns, cleaner markup, and enhanced customizability through new properties like rule-break, rule-outset, and gap-rule-paint-order. The feature is currently in developer trial and requires enabling experimental web platform features.

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    Firefox is dead to me

    Firefox faces mounting challenges including performance issues, website compatibility problems, controversial privacy policy changes, and Mozilla's strategic pivot toward AI. The browser struggles with JavaScript-heavy sites, memory usage problems, and slower performance compared to competitors like Chrome. Mozilla has discontinued useful services like Pocket and Fakespot while laying off employees and maintaining heavy financial dependence on Google for 90% of its revenue. Firefox's market share has dropped to just 1.9% according to US government analytics, leading to questions about its long-term viability.

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    Chrome for Developers

    Chrome 138 introduces built-in AI APIs for translation, language detection, and text summarization that run locally using Gemini Nano. New CSS functions include abs(), sign(), progress(), sibling-index(), and sibling-count() for enhanced styling capabilities. The Viewport Segments API enables responsive design for foldable devices by detecting hardware features like folds and hinges. Additional improvements include attribute serialization fixes, new Clear-Site-Data header values, and the stretch keyword for CSS sizing properties.

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    Built-in AI in Chrome

    Chrome 138 introduces experimental on-device AI APIs for summarization, language detection, and translation using Google's Gemini Nano model. These APIs run locally without cloud dependencies, requiring desktop platforms with 22GB free disk space and 4GB VRAM. Developers can access summarization with customizable types, automatic language detection, and real-time translation capabilities through simple JavaScript APIs, though the features remain experimental and hardware-dependent.

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    HTML spec change: escaping < and > in attributes

    The HTML specification was updated to escape < and > characters in attributes when serializing DOM to HTML strings, helping prevent mutation XSS vulnerabilities. This change affects innerHTML, outerHTML, and getHTML() methods but doesn't impact HTML parsing or DOM APIs like getAttribute(). The update is rolling out in Chrome 138, Firefox 140, and Safari 26, potentially breaking code that relies on innerHTML/outerHTML for attribute extraction and end-to-end tests expecting unescaped characters.

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    Microsoft Hits a New Low

    Microsoft's family safety feature has been blocking Google Chrome for weeks without official acknowledgment, forcing users to rename Chrome.exe to bypass the restriction. Meanwhile, AI search tools are dramatically reducing web traffic to publishers, with crawler-to-visitor ratios jumping from 1:2 to 1:18 in recent years. Other tech news includes Adobe's new iPhone camera app with advanced computational photography, AMD's upcoming Threadripper 9000 processors, and a SpaceX Starship explosion during pre-launch testing.

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    Built a browser extension to keep your secrets safe!

    Hide Secrets is an open-source browser extension that automatically detects and masks sensitive information like API keys, tokens, emails, phone numbers, and credit cards on webpages by blurring or replacing them with [REDACTED]. The extension helps protect personally identifiable information and high-entropy secrets when sharing screens or taking screenshots, and is available on the Chrome Web Store with source code publicly available on GitHub.

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    What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 138)

    Chrome 138 introduces several WebGPU improvements including simplified buffer binding syntax, stricter size validation for mapped buffers, updated GPU architecture reporting for Nvidia Blackwell and AMD RDNA4, deprecation of GPUAdapter's isFallbackAdapter attribute, and enhanced Dawn framework support with Emscripten integration for cross-platform development.

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