{"id":48288,"date":"2013-08-22T20:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=48288"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:13:48","slug":"chrome-beta-for-android-gets-new-gesture-controls-advanced-image-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chrome-beta-for-android-gets-new-gesture-controls-advanced-image-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome Beta for Android gets new gesture controls, advanced image search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released two new betas of their <a title=\"Google Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/chrome\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome browser<\/a> for the desktop and <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>. Both the desktop and Android versions will get a new advanced image search option where you can right-click or long-press to bring up a menu option to search for that image on Google.<\/p>\n<p>With this update, Android users will also have a few new gesture controls. Previously, users would swipe from the edge of the screen to rotate through open tabs. The new <a title=\"Chrome beta for android\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome-beta.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Beta for Android<\/a> moves this feature to the top toolbar, making it harder to trigger a tab switch accidentally. Swipe left or right on the toolbar and you&#8217;ll cycle through your open tabs. Swipe down from the toolbar brings up the card-style tab switcher. Last but not least, users can save a tab by tapping and holding on the menu button, then dragging their finger to the option they want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-48298\" title=\"chrome beta\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/chrome-beta-568x312.png\" alt=\"chrome beta\" width=\"568\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/chrome-beta-568x312.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/chrome-beta-256x140.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/chrome-beta.png 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are more under the hood improvements in Chrome Beta for Android so check them out in the source links below.<\/p>\n<h4>Download: Chrome Beta for <a title=\"Chrome beta for PC\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome-beta.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PC<\/a>, <a title=\"Chrome beta for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome-dev.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a>, <a title=\"Chrome beta for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome-beta.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <a title=\"Google Chrome Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/chrome.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/searching-by-image-gets-easier.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Chrome Blog<\/a> | <a title=\"The Chromium Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2013\/08\/chrome-30-beta-richer-web-on-android.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chromium Blog<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released two new betas of their Chrome browser for the desktop and Android. Both the desktop and Android versions will get a new advanced image search option where you can right-click or long-press to bring up a menu option to search for that image on Google. With this update, Android users will also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chrome-beta-for-android-gets-new-gesture-controls-advanced-image-search\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chrome Beta for Android gets new gesture controls, advanced image search&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":48298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2624],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-48288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome-beta"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332377,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48288\/revisions\/332377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48288"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=48288"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=48288"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=48288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}