What’s new in Chrome?

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Chrome adds concrete developer features: Chrome Web Store API V2 gains service‑account auth, cancel submissions, dedicated percentage rollouts and official client libraries; publisher pages and top charts appear on the store; verified uploads and reviewer test credentials land. Extensions platform adds side‑panel controls, declarativeNetRequest top/excluded top‑domain matching, storage access levels, per‑extension user‑script toggle, prompt API and cookie partition keys; DNR shows a measured 1–600x performance win over webRequest. Testing improves with Chrome for Testing plus Puppeteer and Selenium hooks. Limits (5k static rule, ~30k dynamic) are under review.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Chrome updates
2. 1:47Chrome Web Store changes
3. 8:03Extensions platform updates
4. 17:05Web Extensions Community Group
5. 24:06Chrome browser evolution
6. 28:18Q&A session

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