{"id":312685,"date":"2019-07-08T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=312685"},"modified":"2019-07-08T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:27:24","slug":"google-chrome-to-get-in-browser-play-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/312685-google-chrome-to-get-in-browser-play-button.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome to get in-browser play button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working to implement a play button in its Chrome browser toolbar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-chrome-to-get-a-video-playpause-button-on-the-toolbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>ZDNet reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This button will allow users to pause and resume media playing in their browser, regardless of which tab the media originates from.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will be named Global Media Controls, and has been rolled out to the latest version of Chrome&#8217;s Canary distribution.<\/p>\n<p>The media controls are placed to the right of the URL bar in the current iteration of the feature, and display a pop-up menu when hovered over which allows users to pause or resume media.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently no date for the public release of Global Media Controls, although the development of the functionality is chronicled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.chromium.org\/p\/chromium\/issues\/list?can=1&amp;q=gmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chromium bug tracker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/312453-microsoft-launches-ar-puppets-for-android.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft launches AR puppets for Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working to implement a global play button in its Chrome browser toolbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1567,167,1569,59891],"class_list":["post-312685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-internet-browser","tag-play-button"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312685"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}