This is how you can try the new Chrome button panel to control the multimedia content played in the browser

Lately when it comes to talking about browsers, Edge, the Chromium-based model, is almost all the news. But we must not forget the two great options that occupy the vast majority of users. We are talking about Firefox and especially Chrome and with the latter we stay

The reason is that Google browser just released the global media controls feature for Windows 10 so users already They can gain control of the multimedia content that is playing in the background on the PC, be it videos or music.

Media control

The new feature that arrives with the latest Chrome update gradually, so you may not have it active yet. This function is called Global Media Controls and, as its name suggests, once enabled, allows access to a playback control next to the URL of the page we are visiting if a playback video appears.

Steps to follow

Users can now control videos and music playing in Chrome directly from their browser's toolbar. An update that Chrome has received in the last few hours and that can be activated manually just by following these steps.

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To enable it we must open Chrome and check if it is updated and then go to chrome://flags in the address bar. "

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Once inside and as usual, we use the search box to find the option global-media-controls and mark it as activated. We restart the browser and that&39;s it, it should now appear on web pages with embedded videos."

Now when playing any media content both in the background and in the foreground, a play button should appear in the toolbar tools that offer information related to the title, content source and play and pause buttons.

This new feature has already been in Chrome before within the Canary channel and now comes to Chrome, generally, offering compatibility with services like YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime…

Via | Windows Latest