Google Chrome Desktop Gets Sharing Hub Features

Google Chrome for Desktop gets a nifty new feature to help users easily share web pages with just a few clicks. The company is working towards bringing the popular sharing Hub features to chrome Desktop for Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS. The feature is now available for Chrome users on the Canary channel.

Presently, the new sharing hub features are available on Chrome mobile apps and it allows users to share a web page with your WhatsApp contact, Messages and other apps and this is also available on Chrome Desktop. Chrome Desktop also lets users use Google’s QR code generator, nearby share as means to share web pages with other devices.

Also, users will get more ways to share the web pages with the sharing features becoming available for the Chrome Desktop. The Desktop Sharing Hub feature will be available on both the App Menu and Omnibox(URL bar).

According to mspowersuser, the feature is currently in the testing phase and is now available behind flags. In order to turn on the feature, you’ll need to Enable two flags.

HOW TO ENABLE THE DESKTOP SHARE HUB FEATURE IN CHROME

1. Launch Chrome Canary
2. Type Chrome:// flags on the URL bar
3. Search for Hub and enable the following flags:

Desktop sharing hub in App menu

Desktop sharing hub in Omnibox

4. Relaunch the browser

It’s worth noting that this feature is available only for Chrome Canary users. So, if you’re using the stable version but want to get your hands on it, you’ll need to download the latest version of the Chrome Canary. You can download Chrome Canary from here.