Published: May 6, 2026

Unless otherwise noted, the following changes apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, ChromeOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. Chrome is beta as of May 6, 2026. You can download the latest on Google.com for desktop or on Google Play Store on Android.

CSS and UI

Remove explicit border color UA stylesheet rule for tables

This change removes the erroneous border-color: gray CSS rule from the UA stylesheet for the <table> element.

The HTML specification does not contain this rule, and it causes the borders to incorrectly not default to currentColor. Neither Firefox nor Webkit have this gray border color rule in their UA stylesheet, leading to interop problems.

Support path() and shape() in shape-outside

Adds support for the path() and shape() shape functions in the CSS shape-outside property. These functions allow developers to define float exclusion shapes using rectangle coordinates.

Support rect() and xywh() in shape-outside

Adds support for the rect() and xywh() basic shape functions in the CSS shape-outside property. These functions allow developers to define float exclusion shapes using rectangle coordinates, aligning Chrome with Firefox and Safari which already support this feature.

Web app scope system accent color

Restricts access to the system accent color for CSS keywords and accent-color: auto to be only within a web app and initial profile context.

The AccentColor and AccentColorText CSS keywords pose a significant fingerprinting vector when exposing the user's system colors widely on the web. As such, they're only available in installed web app contexts. Form controls with accent-color: auto also match this scope with this feature launch. This introduces more consistent developer and user expectations for system colors and aligns with fingerprinting restrictions for AccentColor[Text].

Clip text overflow on user interaction

When a user interacts (editing or caret navigation) with text which has text-overflow: ellipsis set, the text switches temporarily from ellipsis to clip allowing the user to see and interact with the hidden overflow content. This feature applies to all editable and non-editable elements. For form controls (textarea, input), the behavior is already supported.

CSS gap decorations

CSS gap decorations let you style gaps in container layouts like grid and flexbox, similar to column-rule in multiple-column layout. This feature is highly requested by web developers who must use hacks to style the gaps in grid and flexbox layouts today.

image-rendering: crisp-edges

image-rendering: crisp-edges indicates that image should be scaled in a way that preserves contrast and edges, and which avoids smoothing colors or introducing blur to the image in the process.

User action pseudo-class top layer boundary

This feature represents the behavior described in the CSS Selectors Level 4 specification, which states that :hover, :active, and :focus-within match on the parents of elements, but only up to the first top layer element in the parent chain. The change for Chromium implements this restriction for top layer elements.

Concretely, this means that in the following structure if the user hovers the <button>, then the :hover pseudo class will match the <button> and the popover, but won't match the <main> element.

<main>
  <div popover>
    <button></button>
  </div>
</main>
<script>document.querySelector('[popover]').showPopover();</script>

The rationale behind this change is that typically top layer elements are rendered "elsewhere", in a location that is disconnected from the parent element visually. So it typically does not make sense to change the styles of the parent element when the top layer element is hovered or activated, for example.

The customizable select implementation shipped in Chromium has this logic hard-coded for the specific case of the select ::picker() popover. That special case logic is being removed in favor of the more general behavior with this feature.

Support path-length as a CSS property

This change introduces a new CSS property, path-length, which maps to the existing SVG pathLength presentation attribute. It applies to SVG geometry elements that support pathLength (including <path>, <circle>, <rect>, <line>, <polyline>, <polygon>, and <ellipse>).

Exposing pathLength as a CSS property allows authors to specify it in stylesheets, inline styles, and animations, enabling it to participate in normal CSS cascading, specificity, transitions, and animations. The property affects all computations that depend on the total path length, including stroke dash rendering and text positioning along a <textPath>.

CSS declarations override the presentation attribute following standard CSS precedence rules. The initial value of path-length is none, which represents the absence of an author-supplied path length and is distinct from an explicit numeric value such as 0.

Existing attribute-only behavior is preserved when the feature is disabled.

Web APIs

Intl.Locale.prototype.variants

Add Intl.Locale.prototype.variants as stated in TC39 proposal and also accept "variants" in option bag in Intl.Locale constructor as in TC39 language ID update. The changes to ECMA402 are merged in pull request 960 and the test code in test262 are merged in pull request 4474

Programmatic scroll promises

Web developers currently have no way to know when a programmatic smooth-scroll has completed. This feature provides a solution to the problem: make the programmatic scroll methods return Promise objects that get resolved on scroll completion with interruption status.

Payment Request: allow payment handlers to report back internal errors

Enables payment handlers that are accessed with the Payment Request API to return distinct errors for "user cancelled" versus "internal payment app error". This allows web developers to build better flows for users, for example by retrying or falling back to a different flow when an internal app error occurs, whilst properly stopping the flow if the user wants to cancel.

The Web-based Payment Handler API can indicate this difference based on what error they use to reject the promise passed to PaymentRequestEvent.respondWith. If the promise is rejected with an OperationError, then "internal app error" (OperationError) is returned to the merchant using the PaymentRequest.show() method, otherwise "user cancel" (AbortError) is returned.

Native app payment handler infrastructure is similarly updated, but is out of scope for web APIs.

Respect autocorrect="off" for Windows touch keyboard in TSF

The HTML autocorrect attribute allows web authors to control whether autocorrection should be applied to user input in editable elements including <input>, <textarea>, and contenteditable hosts. On Windows, the touch keyboard ignores this attribute and always autocorrects words. For example, typing "truf" followed by space in an element with autocorrect="off" yields "true " instead of preserving "truf ". This feature makes Chrome's TSF integration detect and revert touch keyboard autocorrections when the focused editable element has autocorrect="off" set.

Disconnect WebSockets on bfcache entry

Active WebSocket connections no longer prevent a page from entering the Back/Forward Cache (bfcache). By closing connections on bfcache entry instead of marking the document as ineligible, the browser allows pages with active websockets to be stored and restored.

Request.isReloadNavigation attribute

Adds the read-only boolean attribute isReloadNavigation to the Fetch API's Request interface. This attribute indicates whether the current navigation request was initiated as a user-triggered reload (for example, using the refresh button, location.reload(), or history.go(0)). This signal is primarily exposed on the Request object within a Service Worker's FetchEvent.

Disable SVG filters on plugins and cross-origin and restricted iframes

This launch prevents SVG filters from being applied to cross-origin or restricted iframes (for example, sandboxed iframes) and embedded plugins (for example, pdfs). When a frame or plugin would be painted with an SVG filter effect, the effect tree is traversed to find the highest ancestor without SVG filters, and that effect is then applied instead.

New origin trials

In Chrome 149 you can opt into the following new origin trials.

Permissions Policy: focus-without-user-activation

Gives embedders control over programmatic focus from embedded content with the focus-without-user-activation permissions policy. When the policy is denied for a frame, programmatic focus calls (element.focus(), autofocus, window.focus(), dialog.showModal(), and popover focusing) are blocked unless triggered by user activation. User-initiated focus such as clicking or tabbing is never affected.

The policy can be set using a Permissions-Policy HTTP response header or the iframe allow attribute. Focus delegation is supported: a parent frame that has focus can programmatically pass focus to a child iframe, even if the child has the policy denied, and once a frame has focus it can move focus within its own subtree.

Gamepad event-driven input API

This proposal extends the Gamepad API with a new event-driven model that enables applications to receive gamepad input with lower latency. Instead of relying on frequent polling using navigator.getGamepads(), developers can now listen for a rawgamepadinputchange event, which fires whenever new input data is available from the device. This allows for more responsive input handling, particularly in latency-sensitive applications.

WebAssembly custom descriptors

Allows WebAssembly to store data associated with source-level types more efficiently in new custom descriptor objects. These custom descriptors can be configured with prototypes for the WebAssembly objects of that source-level type. This allows methods to be installed on a WebAssembly object's prototype chain and called directly from JavaScript using normal method call syntax. The prototypes and methods can be configured declaratively using an imported builtin function.