Google fixes Chrome’ orientation bug with the release of Chrome 86
Chrome 86 for iOS has been released today and is available for download on official App Store. This release fixes the long time annoying issues causing a web page rendering issue after rotating the device to landscape and back to portrait.
Users registered complaint about this issue since the release of Chrome 85, when they rotate a web page from portrait to landscape and back to portrait, the page would show large margin and lot render correctly.
You can see in below image how the original rendering of the apple.com site in portrait mode and then how it looks after changing its orientation to landscape and back to portrait.
You see white margin on the after-rotation rendering page. This limits the visibility of the page. In a reply to this issue reported to Google, a chrome engineer stated it could not be replicated in Chrome 86.
“We’re going to disable the FullscreenBrowserScoped feature for M85 and relaunch to M86 to 100% since reproducing in M86+ has not been successful. Unsure if building with the iOS14 SDK fixed it or if multiwindow implementation resolved a lingering bug with this refactor,” Chrome engineer sad in a Chrome bug report.
Other features added in Chrome 86 include:
- You can make Chrome as your default web browser;
- Chrome 86 will allow you to check if your saved passwords have been compromised and fix it, in case there is. For this – Go to Chrome settings > passwords > check passwords;
- You will have now more sharing, opening and other options when you tap or hold on Bookmarks, history, recent tabs and read later;
- Improvement in the personalized stories on the tab page;
- With ‘Make searches and browsing better’ option, you will now have the better protection as it will allow you to check known phishing websites with Google in real time.
