The Web would possibly look a bit completely different on Android quickly. Final month, Google introduced its intent to make Chrome for Android a extra immersive expertise by hiding the navigation bar background. The promised edge-to-edge replace is now rolling out to gadgets on Chrome model 135, supplying you with a contact extra display actual property. Nonetheless, some web sites might also be a bit tougher to make use of.

Shifting from button to gesture navigation decreased the quantity of display actual property dedicated to the system UI, which leaves extra room for apps. Google’s transfer to a “dynamic backside bar” in Chrome creates much more house for internet content material. When this characteristic exhibits up, the pages you go to will have the ability to draw all the way in which to the underside of the display as an alternative of stopping on the navigation space, which Google calls the “chin.”

As you scroll down a web page, Chrome hides the handle bar. With the addition of the dynamic backside bar, the chin additionally vanishes. The gesture deal with itself stays seen, shifting between white and black based mostly on what is instantly behind it to take care of visibility. Sadly, this characteristic is not going to work in case you have chosen to stay with the classic three-button navigation option.