Chrome 39 brings colored status bars for easier multitasking

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Published 14 Nov 2014

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One of the best features of Android llipop is the “stacked card” multitasking method. th Chrome 39, individual tabs now break apart into their own cards, so you can more quickly navigate back to a specific website.

Grab the update to see this in action, though you only get the full impact of colored status bars better multitasking if you are one of the few with Android llipop. You still get a more prominent bottom Undo button at the bottom of the screen when closing a tab in case you want to reverse that action.

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New tabs have moved to the multitasking icon.

Anyone can now enable the Reader mode that appeared in a previous Beta, but you have to dig into the chrome://flags menu to find it. It cleans up removes superfluous content when reading an article so you can focus on just the text.

Developers can check the git log for further details on enabling the colored status bar on their own site in order to add some pizzaz. Android lice also discovered a rather odd Easter egg – a jumping dinosaur game to play if your device is offline.

y this matters: llipop’s new system of multitasking is more powerful. This philosophy of breaking specific sites out into cards is also visible in other apps, such as Gmail. en touching the multitasking button it will pull out separate actions as cards, like the compose menu or Inbox. th Chrome now on board, we might see other apps implement this style of multitasking.