Rolling out public key pinning with HPKP reporting
Chrome 46 ships with a feature called HPKP reporting, which can help you roll out a stricter form of SSL for your site.
Tab Discarding in Chrome - A Memory-Saving Experiment
Reducing Chrome's memory footprint is one of the team's top priorities this year.
Using the web app manifest to specify a site wide theme color
Set a theme-color in the manifest and have it available to all pages on your site when launched from the home screen.
The larger-than advanced Network Panel filter, and a few others
Did you know that the filter in the Network panel supports a few nifty custom search labels?
DevTools Digest - Aggregated Timeline Details, Color Palettes and more
Find out which third-party scripts cause perf issues with the Aggregated Details in Timeline, how to choose consistent colors with the new color palette and much more.
Simple keyboard tricks to use in the Styles Pane
Learn how to effectively navigate the Styles Pane with a few useful keyboard tricks.
New Release of Material Design Lite - 1.0.4
There is a new release of Material Design Lite, bringing a host of bug fixes and improvements to the build process.
Using poster images on plugin content
Chrome can now add custom poster images to object elements to improve perceived loading performance of plugins such as Flash.
Using requestIdleCallback
requestIdleCallback is new performance API for scheduling work when the browser is idle.
Easily duplicate DOM nodes
You can easily change the DOM without having to edit the HTML as a giant string.
Edit HTML in the Console Panel
The DOM node context menu, which you may recognize from the elements panel, is also present in the console panel.
A new home for DevTools
We've moved into our shiny new home at developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools and have great new tutorials and tips for you.
Live-edit CSS in sources
Did you know you can live edit CSS in Sources and have it update the page in real-time?
DevTools Digest - Film strip and a new home for throttling
Discover the new film strip functionality and more in this first of many DevTools Digest updates.
Add a new custom device as a preset
Do you frequently emulate devices of a certain dimension? In DevTools Device Mode, you can add new device presets.
MediaStream deprecations
The MediaStream API represents synchronized streams of audio or video. MediaStream.ended, MediaStream.label and MediaStream.stop() are being deprecated. Use MediaStream.active, MediaStreamTrack.label and MediaStreamTrack.stop() instead.
Measuring Performance in a Service Worker
If you can't measure the performance of your requests in a service worker, how can you say it improves performance? Now you can answer that question with recent changes in Chrome.
Media playback notifications for Chrome on Android
When audio or video is playing on a web page, a notification showing the page title and a play/pause button is displayed in the notification tray and on the lock screen. The notification can be used to pause/resume play or return to the page playing the media.
Using rotationAngle and touchRadius
A small set of changes have landed in Chrome 45 that will make it easier for developers to build better touch based apps.
Inspect and trigger CSS media queries
The Device Mode has a media query inspector built-in that allows for easier responsive design.
Shortcut to select the next occurrence
In the Sources Panel editor, you can select the next occurrence with Cmd + D.
Select and execute a block of code in the Sources Panel
Use the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + E to run a block of highlighted code in the Sources Panel.