Jacob Bank

VP product @googlechrome. former founder of and Timeful

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

https://t.co/O3HBeGiAki

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

If you use an AI coding tool and you want your app to use the latest web capabilities, be sure to install the Modern Web Guidance plugin.

The backstory behind this is that we realized that much of the code in the wild that AI models use for training includes out of date and suboptimal web patterns. So we decided to build a plugin that makes it easy for developers to automatically adhere to the best practices of web development today.

Check it out!

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

Another big model release! If you’re an AI Ultra subscriber, you can check it out in Gemini in @googlechrome.

[Google @Google]

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available.

It’s our strongest model, built to dig deeper, handle long-horizon tasks, and multi-step reasoning.

If Argon is great for complex tasks, Carbon is the model you bring in for your hardest problems.

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

This is incredibly cool!

[Chrome for Developers @ChromiumDev]

HTML-in-Canvas launches in Chrome 157 to let you create UIs never before possible on the web → https://t.co/tJ11eThkLp

Key end-user benefits:
🔠 Keep the content fully interactable while painting into canvas, including texture for 3D scenes
♿ Fully accessible to screen readers and AI agents
🔍 Browser functionality like translation & "find in page" stay working

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@RawnakWasi @googlechrome interesting idea! had not thought of that

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

If you have too many tabs in @googlechrome, I have something that may help!

It’s a feature called Vertical Tabs, which moves tabs from a horizontal strip on the top of the browser to a vertical panel on the left. This ensures that you can always read the title of the tab, even if you have lots of them open.

When I posted about it a few weeks ago, hundreds of people messaged me asking how to set it up, so I recorded a quick 2-minute video to show you.

Check it out and I look forward to your feedback!

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@adwpci @googlechrome these are all great suggestions, thanks!

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@mrgrimmig @googlechrome we are definitely working on how to help users get into the right state based on their device type / screen size

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@nijatslife hadn't thought of the other way! always seemed natural to me to add to "the end" of the list

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@emazeemkhan @googlechrome cool idea! cc @alexainslie and I were talking about hover affordances today

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@qeeqez @googlechrome works really well for me! but I'm very happy to look into any issues you're experiencing if you can be more specific

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@manugonzalezjcr @googlechrome and how does it work in the same space? is there a subgrouping like tab groups?

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@dhruvsekhawat0 @googlechrome yup deduping tabs is definitely an opportunity we're looking into :)

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@validatedev @googlechrome odd! have not seen that before

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@chilijan @googlechrome sorry for the naive question, but how exactly does it work in a single window? do you have different tabs grouped under each profile, kind of like tab groups?

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@icnahom @googlechrome I have not heard this request before on desktop! I'm guessing it's not something we'll try near term, but cool idea

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@antonsantos00 @ChromiumDev @googlechrome very cool!

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@joelcipriano @obsdmd @googlechrome Will take a look, thanks!

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

Looking for some insights: what's your favorite Chrome extension and why?

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@TheKwesiTech @googlechrome I don’t think vertical tabs contributes materially to RAM usage but the idea of turning features off you don’t use to save resources is definitely a useful tool

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@dhruvsekhawat0 @googlechrome You can manually organize your tabs with tab groups, and we have some ideas for assistive systems

[Jacob Bank @jebank]

@manugonzalezjcr @googlechrome I’ve heard a bunch of people mention this! I find profile switching in Chrome quite easy but I must be missing something. Is it the fact that you can switch profiles within the same window?