
Google is reportedly integrating a feature called “Link Preview” into Chrome. Studies on time spent online claim that: The average Internet user is online for approximately 6.5 hours per day. Allows you to navigate even faster and It saves us from opening tabsTherefore we are welcome.
As is often the case with a Google product, it was Twitter member Leopeva who discovered that the Mountain View company was in the process of implementing this functionality in its browser. In the code review, the developers explain the principle of Link Press Preview as follows: “we make it visible after pressing a link for a certain amount of time a previously recorded previewto […] The preview page will be activated after a user action such as clicking on it or selecting a side menu item such as “Open preview page in new tab”.
Google Chrome will present a preview of the site by making a long click
The development of this feature, which Safari users on iOS already enjoy, is still in its early stages. Google doesn’t have a “clear plan” for what the preview will ultimately look like. Also, a Risk of hackers creating fake site previews For phishing purposes. “We need to implement a custom user interface so that users can easily determine whether the window is an accurate preview and avoid the risk of a malicious page spoofing it,” Google says.
Google has started working on a new feature called “Link Preview”, Gerrit has a few patches mentioning this and there is also a documentation explaining how this will work…
— Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) July 25, 2023
Cannot preview by long clicking or hovering over a link neither Chrome on desktop nor mobile for several months. In fact, it needs to be distributed to the Chrome Canary channel first and probably go through a long testing phase.
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