/Chrome

Chrome Phasing Out Support For User Agent

- Guy Nesher tl;dr: "Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites."

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Building A More Private Web: A Path Towards Making Third Party Cookies Obsolete

- Justin Schuh tl;dr: Within 2 years, Chrome plans to phase out 3rd party cookies and maintain a healthy ad-supported web, using open-standard mechanisms like the Privacy Sandbox.

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Developing the Largest Contentful Paint Metric

- Annie Sullivan tl;dr: A new performance metric has been established by the Chrome team measuring when the main contents of a page is displayed. This runs through the framework used to build this metric and the objective. 

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Moving Towards A Faster Web

- Addy Osmani Ben Greenstein Bryan McQuade tl;dr: The Chrome team are in development of "badging", a method of identifying sites that are built in "a way that makes them slow" by looking at historical load latencies. In the future, such information may be communicated to users. 

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Things You May Not Know About Chrome DevTools

- Loftie Ellis tl;dr: 10 useful things the author wished knew about Chrome Dev Tools.

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Accessibility Insights for Web

- Itamar Turner-Trauring tl;dr: Google Chrome extension for "assessing the accessibility of web sites and web applications." You can see errors in place and visualize tab-stops.

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JavaScript Loading Priorities In Chrome

- Addy Osmani

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Introducing Background Fetch

- Jake Archibald

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Getting Started with Headless Chrome

- Eric Bidelman

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Preload, Prefetch And Priorities in Chrome

- Addy Osmani

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