Chrome 106 Beta Adds Pop-Up API, SerialPort BYOB Reader Support

Following this week's release of Chrome 105 , Google has promoted Chrome 106 to their beta channel.

Chrome 106 Beta brings a number of incremental improvements over Chrome 105, including changes such as:

- As an origin trial is a Pop-Up API for building transient user-interface elements that display on top of other web app interface elements. This Pop-Up API is intended for action menus, form element suggestions, content pickers, and other similar uses where wanting to force something to be displayed over all other elements.

- Anonymous iframes support for loading documents in third-party iframes using new and ephemeral contexts.

- Support for the JavaScript Intl.NumberFormat v3 API with new functions, rounding modes, and other changes.

- SerialPort "Bring Your Own Buffer" (BYOB) reader support.

- A dequeue event for WebCodecs with the audio/video encode/decode interfaces.

- WebXR raw camera access support.

More details on the Chrome 106 Beta changes via the Chromium.org blog . ChromeStatus.com has more details as well on all the feature changes coming for Chrome 106 ahead of its stable release at the end of September.