As announced on September 27, Google Chrome has released yet another update. As part of Google Chrome's four-week release cycle of updates to give you a better browsing experience, version 106 is now available.

At the moment, the new features in Google Chrome 106 are hidden behind experimental flags, and aren’t default features yet. In this article, we’ll take a look at what comes in Chrome's latest update.

1. Desktop Partial Translate

The Desktop Partial Translate experimental flag allows you to highlight text and translate it into another language. Prior to this update, Google Chrome already allowed you to translate pages, but this is way more convenient for when you simply want to translate a sentence or a paragraph. It matches the functionality of many popular translation tools for Chrome.

To access this feature, here's what you have to do:

  1. Head to chrome://flags.
    Chrome's experiments home page
  2. Search for desktop-partial-translate in the search bar.
    Chrome experiments page
  3. Click Enabled next to Desktop Partial Translate.
  4. Relaunch Chrome by selecting Relaunch in the bottom-right corner.

2. RSS Reader on Chrome Desktop

If you spend a lot of time browsing the internet, then you understand how using an RSS reader helps you stay informed. While Chrome already has an RSS reader for Android, the feature is finally being reintroduced to desktop through experimental flags, years after Google Reader was discontinued.

The RSS reader isn’t fully functional yet, but currently, you’re able to follow and unfollow sites. To get this feature, follow these steps:

  1. Open chrome://flags.
  2. Search for following-feed-sidepanel in the search bar.
    Enabling Chrome RSS in Chrome flags
  3. Change the Default setting to Enabled.
  4. Select Relaunch in the bottom-right corner.

Keeping Up With Chrome’s Changes

The above-mentioned updates can help improve your browsing experience. Chrome 106 comes with 20 security fixes in its stable release. That way, you can continue to browse securely until the next update arrives. Even though most features are experimental flags, they will like be released in a stable version of Chrome in future.

Updates come with critical security improvements and features to enhance your browsing experience. So, it’s important to keep up. But, if you’re not keen on Chrome’s automatic updates, there’s a way to stop automatic updates from Chrome.