Best of Google Chrome — February 2026

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   Exploring WebMCP: A New Standard for AI Agent and Website Interaction

   WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) is an emerging JavaScript API specification backed by Google and Microsoft that enables web applications to expose their functionality to AI agents in a structured way. It introduces two APIs—a Declarative API for HTML form actions and an Imperative API for complex JavaScript interactions—allowing AI agents to interact with websites without scraping HTML or processing screenshots. Chrome offers an early preview, and the W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group has published a draft specification. WebMCP reduces token usage and resource consumption while enabling agents to collaborate with users in a shared interface, with broader rollout expected mid-year. Developers can experiment via Chrome's early preview or the MCP-B polyfill.

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   Chrome for Developers

   Chrome 145 introduces column wrapping for multi-column layouts with `column-wrap` and `column-height` properties, allowing columns to wrap vertically instead of creating horizontal overflow. The release includes a new Origin API that provides an `Origin` object for safer origin comparisons and parsing. Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) enhances security by binding user sessions to specific devices using hardware-backed key pairs and short-lived cookies, making stolen session cookies harder to exploit.

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   A better way to update your web apps

   Chrome 144 introduces a streamlined update process for installable web apps with manifests. Key improvements include: optional name and icon updates (users can now ignore identity changes via a menu instead of facing a disruptive dialog), elimination of unnecessary icon downloads when the icons field hasn't changed, removal of the once-per-day update throttle for faster non-security-sensitive updates, and automatic application of minor icon variations (less than 10% pixel difference) to avoid confusion from CDN re-encoding. Developers must now modify icon URLs or metadata to trigger icon updates, making the process more predictable and bandwidth-efficient.

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   Kristjan Retter·16w

   Made a customisable img to ICO converter with Chrome/Google preview

   A web-based favicon generator tool that converts images to ICO format with customization options. Features include adjustable shapes, tab/Google SERP preview, and for SVG uploads, background color changes and padding controls.

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   Chrome Developers·14w

   What's new in DevTools (Chrome 145)

   Chrome 145 DevTools brings significant performance and debugging improvements. Key updates include soft navigation visibility in trace view for SPAs, more precise line-level profiler timings for minified code, faster trace interaction, and a new render-blocking column in the Network panel. The DevTools MCP server now supports auto-connection and unified emulation. Additional enhancements include individual network request throttling, @starting-style debugging, multimodal AI assistance with image input, and numerous accessibility improvements for screen readers and high contrast modes.

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   What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 145)

   Chrome 145 introduces the WGSL subgroup_uniformity extension, which improves uniformity analysis at the subgroup level, allowing more values to be considered subgroup-uniform. An experimental synchronous buffer mapping feature (mapSync()) is now available in workers to reduce friction between WebGPU and application code. Dawn updates include feature replacements (TextureFormatTier1 superseding R8UnormStorage), nightly binary releases on GitHub, and ExternalTexture support in Emdawnwebgpu.

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