Author: Cameron Summerson / Source: How-To Geek

Chrome 73 is set to hit the stable channel on March 12, 2019. Google’s new browser update features the beginnings of a built-in dark mode, tab grouping, media key support, and more picture-in-picture powers.
Before we get into the details here, it’s worth noting that none of this is guaranteed.
While these features are expected (and even planned) to be part of Chrome 73, there’s always a chance something gets pulled before it hits the stable channel and may not make its way out of the beta (or even dev) channel until Chrome 74 or beyond.Dark Mode (on Mac, For Now)

Dark mode is the new hotness on pretty much everything now, and Google should be bringing it to Chrome 73. This feature is available on macOS Mojave but will be making its way to Windows as well—perhaps in Chrome 74.
The biggest issue here? It looks an awful lot like Incognito Mode, which is probably not a good thing.
To use dark mode on a Mac, you’ll have to launch Chrome with the --force-dark-mode
option, like so:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --force-dark-mode
If you can’t wait to get a dark mode fix, however, you can always install one of Google’s new Chrome themes to add a little darkness to your browser in the meantime.
Tab Grouping

If you’re anything like me, you have 30+ tabs open at any given time. As the number of open tabs starts to rise, however, it becomes harder and harder to stay organized. The new Tab Grouping feature should help with that.
The idea is pretty simple: you can keep similar tabs grouped. So when you’re researching for a project, you can bundle groups of tabs together. Sounds good in theory—we’ll see how it works in practice.
Media Key Support
If you live in Chrome for most things, then you’re likely as hyped about this feature as I am: Chrome will support your keyboard’s media keys, meaning you can play, pause, fast-forward, and rewind right from the keyboard anywhere in Chrome. That’s amazing.
You currently kind of can get part of this functionality by using the Google Play Music Chrome extension, but it only works with, you know, Google Play Music. So it’s not useful at all if you don’t use Play Music. This upcoming feature will hopefully bring full keyboard media controls to all popular web services.
Enhanced PiP Features

PiP (picture-in-picture) support is already baked into Chrome as of version 70, but in 73 it will get a bit more powerful. First up is Auto PiP, a feature that will automatically enable PiP as users switch away from the open video window.
Chrome 73 will also add a “back to tab” button to make it easy to toss the floating video back into its original tab. Hard to believe that isn’t already a thing, but here we are.
Improved Sync Settings

In past versions of Chrome, the Sync menu was just one entry in the People section where you can toggle what is synced. In Chrome 73, however, this entry is renamed to “Sync and Google Services” and gets a lot more robust—you can manage your synced items here, as well as a bunch of other Google services.
Among those, you’ll find options to toggle autocomplete in the Omnibar (for searches and URLs), show suggestions when a page can’t be found, safe browsing, help improve safe browsing, help improve Chrome’s features and performance, make searches and browsing better, and a new “enhanced” spell…
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