Google Chrome get a new “self-share” feature that provides a more obvious workflow that would allow users to share tabs between mobile and desktop. There is another feature that is coming to Chrome to censor the content in media notifications on Android in Incognito Mode.
The Google Chrome “self-share” feature flag hasn’t been merged in just yet, so it is unclear when the feature might end up in Chrome. However, the functionality is described in an informal message between developers attached to the change log: “I put together a quick feature flag to start working on a prototype for sharing URLs between mobile and desktop chrome.” The flag description found by Chrome Story elsewhere in the Gerrit also confirms: “Allows users to post tabs from Android devices to allow other synced computer to reopen those same.”
The media notification changes spotted seems to be exclusive to Android and are logical. Currently, the media notifications for content playback from an Incognito tab display metadata like video/audio title, URL, artist/channel, a background image, etc. However, this will change soon and the media playback notifications coming from Incognito windows will be hidden, and would merely show “A site is playing media” with the playback controls. Since this change has already made its way into Chrome Canary, it should be rolling out to other versions soon.