Chrome’s main menu may soon let you search it. A test version of the browser, Canary, now answers what you type in the menu’s box with matching commands, plus your saved bookmarks and pages you visited recently.
The menu itself has been rebuilt in blocks. It is a test build, so Google can still change or drop any part of it, and the company has not given a date for the stable version that most people use.
Chrome tracker Leopeva64 showed the working search in a short video on 3 November, with screenshots. The box had been in earlier Canary builds as an empty placeholder. Results are now grouped, so a command such as opening a new window is kept apart from a saved page or a site you visited last week.
The same redesign turns the three opening actions, a fresh tab, a fresh window and an incognito window, into big buttons at the top rather than ordinary list entries. Other controls sit in separate rounded sections below them.
Leopeva64 also noted a smaller change in an earlier post: Canary is testing the removal of the scroll arrows that used to scroll a long menu when you hovered over them. A normal scrollbar replaces them. The search box stays fixed at the top, and a strip with Settings, Help and Exit stays at the bottom, while only the middle moves.
For anyone who has ever hunted through Chrome’s long menu for one setting, a search field at the top could save a lot of digging, especially on small laptop screens where the menu already scrolls. Canary builds update daily, so changes to this layout can show up quickly, or vanish.
