Our Android smartphone is used for much more than simple communication and telephony. It is, often, our computer, camera, organizer and work center, which is why Google has decided to endow its Google Chrome browser with new and powerful productivity features.
The goal? Helping you save time whenever you have multiple tabs open on your Android smartphone, starting with Chrome tabs with our searches, for example. The new feature, just like that, was named Instance Switcher and will help us get more out of our smartphone in multitasking scenarios.
Google Chrome will be really useful on Android smartphones
This is one of the most valuable additions to the expected productivity of the Google Chrome browser, present in each and every Android smartphone. It will allow users to have multiple Chrome windows open simultaneously to quickly switch between searches, results and other content through the browser.
We can thus have a window for work and another for entertainment open simultaneously. On the other hand, it can also be useful to compare search results with different terms, or different topics that are useful to us at a given time. Something better illustrated, truth be told, by the first images of this new Chrome feature, the Instance Switcher.
The feature essentially allows us to split the screen so that we can run two versions of Chrome at the same time. We will also be able to interact with these Google Chrome windows and search naturally in both instances.
Even more useful feature for foldable smartphones and Android tablets
We can, therefore, start a search for Cuisine in one of the windows and another Google search for Games, in the second instance of Chrome opened. It will be, in practice, the step beyond Tabs for this browser, making it even more practical in everyday life.
Users will even be able to watch YouTube videos while searching, reading, or working on a particular subject or document opened through the Google Chrome browser. In short, it’s a new ode to productivity coming to this application. The feature was first reported by the publication TomsGuide, noting its gradual availability.
Personally, I believe that the feature will be better used on Android tablets. On the other hand, I also see its merit and usefulness in large smartphones such as, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and other products that follow this formula with a large interior screen.
Finally, it should be noted that Google has been working on this feature since 2021, as best illustrated below by the video published by Mishaal Rahman on your Twitter.
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