Without Vivaldi or Opera, which have the philosophy of adding and adding functions to have something different to offer, the news in the most used web browsers they arrive dropper. At least for the end user, since many APIs are added so that developers can do something else. The most notable novelty that came along with Chrome 116 It is one that is in the middle, an API that users will soon be able to take advantage of.
That API would allow us to do something like what we tried to represent in the header image. It is clear that it is a bit sloppy, but the intention has been to show that there are two tabs, that the browser is here in LinuxAdictos, but there is a floating window with a PDF of another page. That's what the new API would allow you to do. Picture-in-Picture Documents of the new Chrome 116.
Other Chrome 116 news
Picture-in-Picture has long been available in all major web browsers, but only for videos. This Picture-in-Picture for documents would allow you to always have a foreground window with arbitrary HTML elements. How it will end up being implemented is something we will see over time. For example, you could allow chat messages to appear floating on a web page other than the messaging service.
Among the other new features, Chrome 116 adds screen animations and content visibility, BYOB support for the Fetch API, CSS move path, and a few other developer news. In addition, and as always, the opportunity has been taken to fix security flaws. Community input is available at this link, where we see that a developer has received $30.000 for his work.
Chrome 116 It is now available to download from its official website in packages DEB and RPM, and there is also a flatpak package in flathub. Arch Linux-based distributions have it available in the AUR under the name google-chrome, yet to be updated.