{"id":35974,"date":"2020-07-01T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2629620"},"modified":"2020-07-01T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:10:00","slug":"google-is-making-navigation-more-thumb-friendly-in-chrome-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/google-is-making-navigation-more-thumb-friendly-in-chrome-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is making navigation more thumb-friendly in Chrome for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<header>\n<div class=\"byline-social\">\n<p class=\"strapline\">Time for people with small hands to celebrate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"box less-space\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" block-image-ads hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/J7zugUXRLpkU5gpntUzBmG-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"Google Chrome\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/J7zugUXRLpkU5gpntUzBmG.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/J7zugUXRLpkU5gpntUzBmG.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"text-copy bodyCopy auto\">\n<p>Using Chrome to browse the web on your phone means spending a lot of time navigating around the screen using your thumbs. If you have a large-screened phone &ndash; or small hands &ndash; getting your thumb all the way to the top of the screen to switch tabs can be something of a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Google seems to be working on a solution. It&#8217;s something the company has experimented with before, and anyone running the beta version of the mobile browser can try out a new, optional navigation bar at the bottom of the screen rather than the top.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google makes it easier to&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/google-makes-it-easier-to-discover-the-meaning-of-everything\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"1459200336643904300\">discover the meaning of&#8230; everything<\/a><\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve rounded up all the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/browser\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"1220932628316051200\">best browsers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find out&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/how-to\/get-chrome-dark-mode\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"5671965350351884000\">how to use dark mode for Chrome<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<aside class=\"hawk-widget\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-widget-id=\"1933449972105170200\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p>The update gives you access to something that resembles &ndash; but does not completely mimic &ndash; the look of the tab bar in Chrome on the desktop. To switch to another tab you have open, there&#8217;s no need to stretch up to the top right of the screen to access the tab-switch button as everything is now nicely available at the very bottom of the screen in the &#8216;conditional tab strip&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom toolbar you can see icons representing all of the tabs you have open, and you just need to tap one to switch to that site. If you have a large number of tabs open (and who doesn&#8217;t?) you can swipe left and right to scroll through them all. The navigation bar also lets you close tabs you no longer need, open new ones, and access your history<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"bottoming-out\">Bottoming out<\/h2>\n<p>In order to take advantage of the new bottom navigation bar, you&#8217;ll have to be running the beta version of Chrome for Android. You can download this build of the browser from&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.chrome.beta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.chrome.beta\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-custom-tracking-id=\"5821806192689001000\">Google Play<\/a>&nbsp;&ndash; but remember, this is unfished beta software, so there may be a few issues with the app.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have the beta installed, head to&nbsp;<strong>chrome:\/\/flags\/#enable-conditional-strip<\/strong>&nbsp;and use the dropdown menu to enable the feature. As this is currently an experimental option, you may find &ndash; as some people are reporting &ndash; that the bottom tab bar does not show up. A browser restart may help, or you may just need to wait a little longer for Google to flip a switch server side.<\/p>\n<p>If you do get it working, enjoy it while you can. It&#8217;s not clear when, or even if, the bottom navigation feature will make its way to the stable build of Chrome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/google-makes-it-easier-to-discover-the-meaning-of-everything\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/google-makes-it-easier-to-discover-the-meaning-of-everything<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/> Mark Wycislik-Wilson <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p> Mark Wycislik-Wilson <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" alt=\"\">Time for people with small hands to celebrate Using Chrome to browse the web on your phone means spending a lot of time navigating around the screen using your thumbs. If you have a large-screened phone &ndash; or small hands &ndash; getting your thumb all the way to the top of the screen to switch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/01\/google-is-making-navigation-more-thumb-friendly-in-chrome-for-android\/\">Continue reading <span>Google is making navigation more thumb-friendly in Chrome for Android<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/google-is-making-navigation-more-thumb-friendly-in-chrome-for-android\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google is making navigation more thumb-friendly in Chrome for Android - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/01\/google-is-making-navigation-more-thumb-friendly-in-chrome-for-android\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google is making navigation more thumb-friendly in Chrome for Android - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Time for people with small hands to celebrate Using Chrome to browse the web on your phone means spending a lot of time navigating around the screen using your thumbs. 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