{"id":214382,"date":"2017-06-07T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=214382"},"modified":"2017-06-07T08:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:59:45","slug":"google-chrome-59-released-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/214382-google-chrome-59-released-the-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome 59 released &#8211; The details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/updates\/2017\/05\/nic59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chrome 59<\/strong><\/a>, which includes a number of new features. Chrome 59 is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing users will notice is a redesigned Settings section, which features a more modern look, centred on the page, and includes coloured sliders for on\/off options.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-chrome-59-released-with-a-material-design-ui-in-the-settings-section\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>reported that Chrome 59 uses Material Design, Google&#8217;s UI, and is the first version of Chrome to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The new version also features support for a &#8220;headless mode&#8221;. This lets software testers script Chrome interactions without starting the user interface.<\/p>\n<p>Desktop notifications for macOS have also been included in Chrome 59, which will use the OS&#8217;s Notifications API.<\/p>\n<p>Other features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WritableStreams are now available as part of the Streams API.<\/li>\n<li>The Streams API has been expanded.<\/li>\n<li>Developers can use the getInstalledRelatedApps function to consolidate push notifications.<\/li>\n<li>The Image Capture API allows sites to take higher-resolution images than before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/214114-add-and-edit-contacts-from-outlook-on-ios-and-android.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Add and edit contacts from Outlook on iOS and Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released Chrome 59, which includes a number of new features. Chrome 59 is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":210826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43756,167],"class_list":["post-214382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome-59","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214430,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214382\/revisions\/214430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}