Chrome is Adding Tutorial Videos to Teach New Users about its Browser

Google is continuously testing new feature to introduce in Chrome through its Canary and Dev builds to provide great feature without any bug and making those feature stable. These features are hidden in feature flag section of the browser. While Chrome has brought another feature, which has been spotted in Chrome Canary, namely Video Tutorials. Well, you read right. Chrome is to introduce a set of short videos to help new users to understand the Chrome browser which actually comes pre-installed on every Android.

This feature has earlier spotted by ChromeStory, the browser now includes two new flags, # video-tutorials and #video-tutorials-instant-fetch, in the Canary and Dev builds. To get your hands on this module, visit chrome://flags, search for ‘video tutorials’ and enable the above two feature flags.

Once you have enabled the flag, relaunch the browser to see a video tutorial card pop up on the new tab page. If you are unable to see that, force stop the Chrome app and restart the browser to see the videos. You can now tap the card to play out the video and learn about some of its features.

I have managed to enable the feature in Chrome Canary 89.0.4326.0, I can see a card suggesting video tutorial whenever I am on the New Page while on the first go, I was asked to select language and then it stated to give a video tutorial. In the end it asked to play again or move next.

The above screenshot shows off the video playback screen which includes a share button at the top right. You can also see the video tutorials hub ‘Learn Chrome’ that comes once you cycle through all of the video thumbnails shown up on the new tab page.

Google is using placeholder videos but the titles brief us about what to expect from the tutorials. Through these videos, Chrome will guide you some basics in How to use Chrome’, ‘How to use Incognito’ for safe browsing, and download content for later use.

This would certainly help if someone moves from other phone to Android as it is very much targeting for them as Chrome is known for everyone that uses Android.