Google May Remove Chrome’s Screenshot Editing Tool: Here’s Why

Last Update: January 29, 2023, 14:09 IST

Commits to Chromium usually take about 10 weeks to stabilize Chrome.

As per the Chromium changes made earlier this week, the screenshot tool is expected to disappear, at least in its current form.

Tech giant Google is killing off Chrome’s screenshot editing feature after months of development. As Android Police reports, the tech giant started developing a tool for editing screenshots directly in a desktop browser more than a year ago.

The report mentions that after months of development, the feature, which was first introduced in Chrome Canary version 98, looks set to be released outside its feature flag as an accessible tool for all users. Was.

As per the Chromium changes made earlier this week, the screenshot tool is expected to disappear, at least in its current form.

A series of commits by engineers on Chromium Gerrit, where updates to Chrome’s open-source code base are submitted, completely removed the screenshot editing feature from the browser.

The report states that it usually takes about 10 weeks for chrome to stabilize in Chromium.

Meanwhile, last month, it was reported that the tech giant was working on a new security option in Chrome to block insecure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) downloads.

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