Google testing new ‘Follow’ button on Chrome for websites that support RSS
Google Chrome might soon introduce a new feature to its users, which will allow them to keep up to date with their favorite websites.
According to Mashable, Google Chrome, during the testing phase of a new feature, adds it to the Google ‘Chrome Canary’ channel and then the feature is moved over to the Chrome Beta channel before finally arriving on the stable version. Such is the case with the new ‘Follow’ button too.
The company is rolling out a new experimentative feature on Chrome Canary which will make it easier for users to remain up to speed with their favorite websites, as and when they post something new.
👀 we’re testing out a way to follow websites directly in Chrome. if you follow a site, content shows up on the new tab page as it’s published. 🪄 I’ve been using it myself the last few weeks and am so excited to share publicly! https://t.co/KL3YELDHbl pic.twitter.com/3f4jXkKRdA
— Adrienne Porter Felt (@__apf__) May 19, 2021
As a part of this experiment, once a user makes sure about the news site, they are visiting has an RSS feed, they will be able to see and tap on the `Follow` button to subscribe to it.
As a part of the new feature, new content published by websites that one follows will be shown during a new ‘Following’ section on the New Tab page.
Mashable reported that the new feature sees the return of RSS to tug new content from websites. With the testing of the new addition, Google recommends publishers keep their RSS feed up so far to make sure that Chrome can always provide the newest content with this experiment. However, the ‘Follow’ button is going to be a limited experiment and it will only roll out to a little set of Android users within the US on ‘Chrome Canary’ for the time being and if it takes off, then only it will show up on the next Beta version.
