It's time for a new Chrome release, and as always, there is both new features for users and new abilities developers can use. Let's take a look at what's new.
Read MoreOpera version 37 brings a brand new material-inspired look
"The other browser, that one with the red O as its logo, um... Opera!" is the way I've often heard Opera referred to. It's a great browser, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to have the same public mindshare as Chrome or Firefox does. Today, it's getting a brand new lick of paint in version 37, which might help it in the ongoing quest to overhaul the aforementioned 'big boys' of the browser game.
Opera says in a blog post that the new look is more modern, fresh, and importantly (at least for some), material. The browser's Speed Dial feature has had a complete redesign, while the news feature is to the right of that.
Read MoreFirefox 49 brings tab improvements, offline page viewing, and more [APK Download]
Firefox may have been overshadowed by Chrome in terms of worldwide users, but it is still an excellent browser, even on Android. The latest update, version 49, has the usual dose of new features and bug fixes.
The biggest new feature is offline page viewing, which coincidentally enough, was recently added to the Chrome Dev builds. However, Chrome allows you to manually choose what pages you want stored for offline reading, whereas Firefox tries to store recent pages offline automatically. I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to implement Chrome's offline functionality, now that the framework is in place.
Read MoreGello, CyanogenMod's Custom Chromium-Based Browser, Is Rolling Out To Some CM Builds Now
Remember Gello, that neat Android browser based on Chromium code that was teased by the CyanogenMod developer team a little less than a year ago? It looks like the app is finally finished, or at least ready to make a version 1.0 debut. Joey Rizzoli, the CM developer who teased Gello last July, says that it's ready to go and that managers can begin to incorporate Gello into nightly builds. The browser will be added by the individuals or teams of developers responsible for upkeep on each CyanogenMod device build, so Gello may or may not be immediately on your device's nightly release.
Read MoreVideo: Six Ways To Improve Your Browsing Experience On Android
Another Android Police video? Is it April Fool's? Christmas? Halloween? International Talk Like A Pirate Day? It's none of those things, it's just more video! This time, we're bringing you Facundo Holzmeister with six simple ways to improve your browsing experience on Android, from things like Chromer custom tabs to the ingenious Flynx, which really deserves its own explanation in the video. We also take a look at a few features inside Google Chrome for Android itself that you may not have discovered previously, including one feature - forced custom tabs - that is currently unique to the Chrome Dev release.
Read MoreOpera Mini Adds New Language Selector, QR Code Reader, And More
I love Opera Mini, not just because of its light size and data saving features, but also because the app keeps getting updated frequently with new things to check out.
This last update for example adds a QR reader and generator to the browser so that you can scan any QR code you might come across and immediately go to the linked page, or create codes to share with nearby users or online. I haven't been seeing lots of QR codes around me lately, but in the 1 or 2 instances where I came across them, I wished I could scan them easily.
Read MoreLink Bubble's Code Is Now Open Source And Visible On GitHub
Link Bubble is the Facebook Chat Heads of browsers, a way to open links and save them for later without having to hop around between apps. Over the summer, developer Chris Lacy sold the app off. Under new management, the app became available for free within a month.
New features and fixes have made their way to the app in the months since, but now we see another sizable shift for the app.
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'Open Link With' Lets Users Quickly Open Links In Alternate Browsers Or Apps
When I'm browsing a comments section on Reddit on the Android version of Chrome, I prefer to open links in a new tab, because opening them directly will make the current page "forget" which threads I've already minimized. But when the links are to a YouTube video, they open in a tab with the mobile version of YouTube, instead of in the dedicated Android app. This little app fixes that: Open Link With allows you to open a web page with any compatible app. It's perfect for quickly switching over to YouTube for that link I opened wrong, or for opening a page in an alternate browser that isn't set to the Android default.
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Chromer Opens All Of Your Links In A Chrome Custom Tab
Introduced at Google I/O this year and implemented in the stable version 45 of Chrome, Chrome Custom Tabs aim to make browsing from third-party apps as fast, unintrusive, and seamless as possible. Instead of developers relying on System WebView to load links from their applications, they could implement Custom Tabs to open these links in a faster page that sits on top of the app and uses Chrome's rendering and data saving capabilities, has access to its saved passwords and autofill information, and benefits from its security updates.
However, not all developers have implemented Chrome Custom Tabs and that's where Chromer comes in.
Read MoreChrome 47 Hits The Play Store, Brings Download Snackbar And Other Awaited Features [APK Download]
Chrome 47 is now in the Play Store. This stable build is the end result of all of the development we've watched over the past few months.
We detailed changes as they popped up, with one nice feature being the addition of a snackbar that appears at the bottom of the screen when you complete a download (pictured above).
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