Chrome Browser for Android now opens YouTube search results in an overlay

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Chrome Browser for Android now opens YouTube search results in an overlay

If you will search for "best android apps march 2020" and scroll down to YouTube results you may notice a small expand icon on thumbnails. These thumbnails can open YouTube videos in an overlay that opens much faster than if you would need to open your YouTube app on Android.

This feature rather belongs to Google web search than Chrome but Chrome is the only browser that supports it. It should work in any Chrome version but it is still under testing so this overlay may be not yet available to everyone.

Tester Context:

  • 📲 Chrome is a popular web browser by Google with more than 27 million installs.
  • 📲 Chrome has 4 different release tracks as standalone apps: Canary, Dev, Beta and Stable.
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Source: Digital Information World