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Google has just announced that Chrome 69 has moved from developer channel (Dev) to public test (Beta) channel, and interested friends can experience it on GNU / Linux, macOS and Windows. In terms of features, Chrome introduces support for bangs (notch display) and uses AV1 video decoder, which claims to increase the compression ratio by 30%, which can solve some practical problems faced by streaming video.

­in addition to Google Chrome, the Mozilla Foundation, which develops Firefox web browsers, recently launched a campaign to actively adopt AV1 video coding in partnership with big-name video streaming services and hosting companies.

­YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and a number of television companies around the world have expressed support for this open and efficient new technology to replace the more expensive H.264 video coding.

­Google said that based on the official bitstream specification, Chrome 69 added AV1 decoders for desktop platforms (including Windows / macOS / Linux / Chrome OS).

­however, currently Chrome 69 only supports Main profile 0, and the coding capability has not been included. The supported container is ISO-BMFF (MP4).

­with the upcoming release of Chrome 69, Google has also learned some new CSS skills:

­for example, a conical gradient that allows color conversion around the center (rather than radiating it out)

­support for new border, border, and fill properties, as well as CSS scroll snapshot positioning

­supports a notched bang screen display (which is also available in the upcoming Android P mobile operating system).

­Chrome 69 also promises a new interface called OffscreenCanvas:

­it allows 2D and WebGL canvas rendering for the context of Workers to improve the performance of multicore systems and the parallelism of Web App.

­several new JavaScript API, new keyboard mapping API, support for text selection in hyphenation, WebRTC improvements, and so on.

­Google Chrome 69.0.3497.23 is now available for download:

­https://www.google.com/chrome/beta/

­[compiled from: Softpedia]

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