Chrome’s Ctrl+F search bar is getting small but long-requested changes. Google is testing a Match Case toggle that separates capital and lowercase letters, plus two arrows that jump past matches you can already see. Both are in Chrome Canary, the experimental channel, and none of it has reached stable Chrome.
The Match Case button is the more useful of the two. Today Chrome ignores capitalisation, so searching for an acronym such as PTA or a name like Apple also lights up every lowercase “pta” or “apple” buried in a long page. Edge already has the option,.
Skipping what is already on screen
The two new arrows are labelled “Previous outside view” and “Next outside view”. Instead of stepping through each highlighted match one by one, they move to the next match below the current screen or the previous one above it. On a long article with a term repeated through one paragraph, that saves a lot of clicking.
Chrome researcher Leopeva64 spotted the Match Case button on X on 30 October, in a post that follows an earlier one about the two arrows. Google hasn’t announced either change, and experimental flags in Canary don’t always make it to the stable release. So far the tests are on desktop only.
