From easy permissions access to new colors, and how to price track in Chrome, our favorite
browser has gotten some major upgrades just in time for 2024.
Hey friends, I’m Tasia Custode and if you take away one thing from this video it should
be that you should always keep Chrome up-to-date.
Seriously.
But if you’ve recently updated Chrome, you may notice a new color scheme.
You should now notice that your active browser window is a very light blue on top where all
your tabs are.
As you scroll over tabs, they will turn a darker blue, where you’ll have a little
summary underneath of what that website is.
But let’s say you want to quickly customize Chrome.
Click on the plus icon to open a new tab.
Here, in the bottom right of your Chrome browser, you’ll have a Customize Chrome option with
a little edit pen.
Simply click on that.
A side panel pops out for you where you can change the appearance - so if you don’t
like this default device theme with the blue, you can go to light theme or dark theme, pick
from pre-set group of colors, or click on the eye dropper to select from the color picker.
Underneath that, you can customize your shortcuts a little bit.
First, decide whether or not you want your shortcuts toggle on, and pick which type of
shortcuts.
So the default is My shortcuts.
These are the shortcuts curated by you.
So look here under my Google search bar - these are shortcuts.
You can easily add one as well by clicking ‘add shortcut’.
Here, you’d name your shortcut and paste the corresponding URL.
By the way, at anytime, you can hover over a shortcut, click the 3 dot menu icon, and
remove the shortcut if you no longer want it.
So, back to our pop out on the right.
If we change this from ones I’ve curated to most visited sites, you’ll see the change
reflected up here.
You can also customize your cards as well in this side panel.
If you have cards, they appear here underneath this Google search bar and your shortcuts.
Alright, let’s talk about even more quick access in Chrome because your bookmarks are
even easier to access.
You may notice a new side panel icon in the top right of Chrome - right near your profile
icon.
Click on that to quickly access your bookmarks.
Here you can search your bookmarks at the top, or organize them by grouping them into
folders.
You can also open or delete a bookmark from here too.
Plus, at the bottom of the side panel, you can add your current tab.
I would also encourage you to check out the new menu in Chrome.
If you click the three dot menu icon in the top right, you’ll notice your menu looks
a little bit different now.
Here, you have new access to your Chrome profile.
And, if you hover over that, you can see all the other options and features you have like
even seeing what other Chrome profiles are signed in and in use right now.
You can add a profile from here or manage your profile from here too.
Alright, let’s talk about the new Tune Icon you may have noticed in your address bard
in Chrome.
When you’re on a site in Chrome, you’re going to have this Tune icon that looks like
two lines and two circles.
If you click on this, you’ll be able to quickly see that your connection is secure.
Plus, you can view what permissions you’ve granted that site.
So this will look different for each tab depending on the permissions you’ve granted that site.
You can review your choices and make any changes needed right from here.
Love this quick access to permissions.
Okay, we have a few new shopping features to talk about.
And we will start with Chrome automatically giving you shopping insights.
That’s right, I’m talking price history and price tracking right in Chrome, no third-party
app needed.
You know how many videos I’ve done on price tracking tools, so this is huge.
Caveat, this particular Chrome shopping feature is only available when there is sufficient
price history on a product.
So here’s how it works.
When you’re on a product page that has enough data for Chrome to pull, you may see a little
shopping bag icon in the right of the address bar.
This is the Shopping insights button.
Click on Shopping insights and a side panel will appear on the right and you’ll see
that product's typical price range and price history for the last 90 days.
So you know if a deal is really a deal.
Now you’re also supposed to have the option to save and track the price as well, and that
will be in this side panel underneath the 90 day price history.
When you track the price you’ll get an email when the price drops.
Unfortunately, some of these shopping features aren’t active for me yet when I was making
this video, but this is where that save and track price option will be when it’s available.
So this is still in the works, but how neat is this?
So if you want to learn what tools I use to track prices and see price trends over time,
I’ve linked to a few of those videos in the description below.
Now back to some cool shopping features.
Along with being able to see price history in Chrome, you’ll be able to quickly save
a product you’re interested in with a new Shopping list folder that tracks the price
of each item you saved.
So next time you’re on a product page on a shopping site, click the bookmark star to
save the page to your shopping list folder.
This categorization will happen automatically for you.
So remember, we can easily pop out our side panel here to see our bookmarks and I’ll
switch over to bookmarks from this shopping insights view, and here, automatically categorized
for me in a shopping list folder is that product I just bookmarked.
Now this is really important to note.
This did not work for me on every product page.
Here’s what I mean.
I found it only saves something automatically to the shopping list folder if I’ve already
used the little shopping insights option before.
So, yesterday, I couldn’t get anything to save to my shopping list folder, but it seems
that now that I’ve used the insights option - even on another item entirely, it saves
my products to the shopping list folder.
I don’t know why.
So, this is a work in progress, but we’re getting there.
So along with price tracking and shopping list bookmarks, Chrome is also able to look
for discount codes automatically for you.
And once again, this won’t appear every time.
So far, I’ve only had this feature pop up once for me, but I’ll show you what it’s
supposed to look like.
If there is a discount code available from a product page, you’ll have a little tag
icon in the right of your address bar.
I even had this pop out and tell me the available code automatically.
But, if it doesn’t you would click on that discount tag icon and the code will appear
where you can copy it.
So again, this will be kind of a when available type of situation.
I’m so mad I didn’t even think to take a screenshot of the one time this happened
for me because I’ve not seen it since.
I tied for you I swear, but I know it’s there.
Remember to check out my other price tracking videos via the links below and let me know
how these new features are working out for you.
Do you have these new Chrome features and do you love them?
Let me know in the comments below.
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