Chrome Private Tabs are a Google invention where developers can display web pages in their apps without having to involve the entire browser. They will be even more useful from now on, Can turn into floating windows.

Chrome Custom Tabs are now available Use Android’s Picture-in-Picture or PiP modethus allowing you to keep them open while switching to other applications. This is a big advantage over the previous mode, which required you to close the tab to return to the app.

Floating Chrome Windows

Apps like Gmail use Chrome Custom Tabs to open web links instead of redirecting you to the default browser. This is especially useful for a fast query because the connection opens faster and without having to switch applications.

When we open a website in a Chrome Private Tab, it looks like a sort of tab placed over the app that we have to close to return to where we were. For example, when they write us a Gmail email telling us something about a website and we click on the link, the website opens in a tab. If we want to re-read what you told us in the message, we had to close the tab completely. This made the process frustrating at times.

With a delay of several years, Google has now considered including PiP mode in the Chrome Custom Tab; so we can turn the preview of a web page into a floating window. It remains active even if we return to the application or even switch to another app.

To do this we must press the key. new down arrow button From the top bar of the Chrome Custom Tab, where the title of the web page we open is indicated.

The floating window can be resized just like other PiP windows, but the preview title, web address and iconso you won’t see much benefit from enlarging the preview.

This floating window is very useful if you need to interact with a website and other applications (including a code you received via SMS or email, for example), because until now you had to close the Chrome Private Tab to return to the previous app and the whole process was lost.

More information | Chrome Blog

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