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Now Google Chrome shares tabs to new devices that save where you were

The Verge Jess Weatherbed

Chrome can now carry your scroll position to another device. That makes hopping between phone and laptop feel less like starting over.

Based on reporting by The Verge, Jess Weatherbed — read the original for the full story.

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Google is adding a set of Chrome features aimed at people digging through messy topics, with a nicer handoff between devices at the center of it all. The browser’s cross-device tab switching is getting a memory upgrade, so it can keep track of where you were on the page instead of dumping you back at the top.

That sounds small because it is small. But anyone who’s ever bounced from a phone to a laptop while reading a long article, a tutorial, or a pile of notes knows how annoying it is to go hunting for the same paragraph again. Chrome already let people send a tab from mobile to computer, or the other way around. The new version just makes that transfer less clumsy.

Google is also expanding what Gemini in Chrome can do. According to the company, it will be able to handle more kinds of media and produce interactive study quizzes, pushing the browser a little further toward a built-in research assistant rather than just a place to open pages.

Put together, the changes point to the same idea: Chrome wants to stay useful after the page loads. It’s not a dramatic reinvention. It is a practical one, and for people who jump between devices all day, that may be the point.

My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting

This is the kind of feature that quietly earns loyalty because it fixes a real annoyance instead of chasing a headline. Google keeps nudging Chrome toward a study buddy, which is sensible right up until the browser starts acting like a tutor with a tab addiction. Still, making the handoff between devices smoother is the right kind of boring.

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