The recently announced RTX 4000 series cards introduces AV1 encoding on Nvidia GPUs. Following that, the Chromium development team has added a merge which will now allow streaming in AV1.
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Microsoft has submitted a Chromium commit that helps automatically "de-elevate" browsers when launched with elevated privileges. However, Google engineers suggest de-elevating downloads instead.
Google is testing a feature that provides a history of users' media playback. An experimental 'media-history' flag can be enabled in Chrome Canary, but it is still in the early stages of development.
Microsoft's recent feature that enables users to move multiple tabs to a new window might be soon making it to Chrome. The firm has committed code to Chromium Gerrit that builds on Google's feature.