

A whole new functionĪpple added the Touch Bar to its laptops in 2016, specifically the 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros. And after speaking to some of them and experimenting with my own Touch Bar modifications - I think I might feel the same. But believe it or not, there are people who do, and they’ll actually miss the programmable, keyboard-length touchscreen now that Apple’s going another way. I really don’t think about it all that often.

The closest the company has gotten to adding a touchscreen to a Mac.Īs the proud owner of a refurbished 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro, I’m a self-described Touch Bar agnostic. You should only use Canary builds to test out new features, and not use Chrome’s Canary build as your primary browser.The new 2021 Macbook Pros don’t have a Touch Bar.Īmid news of the M1 Pro, M1 Max, and the return of glorious ports (HDMI! MagSafe! SD card!) Apple killed its last new (if misguided) vision for the future of laptop computing, a much-maligned, multi-touch strip at the top of the keyboard. Note : Chrome’s Canary builds are prone to being unstable, and can crash, or freeze at any time. So, yes, the Touch Bar support in the Chrome Canary build is still at an early phase and we hope Google adds more options when it arrives in the stable release. However, there’s no way to customize the Touch Bar buttons, and unlike Safari, the Chrome Canary build does not bring a tab switcher or preview of windows in Touch Bar. There’s also a search/address bar that lets you quickly type a URL or search for something. In the Chrome canary build, the Touch Bar features static buttons for back, forward, refresh, new tab and favorites. If you want to try out the Touch Bar support in Chrome, you can just download the Canary build, and try it out. There’s a stable build that most of you probably already have, a Beta build that is meant to let users get early access to some of the new features being implemented in Chrome, and a Canary build that is basically the bleeding edge of every feature being added to Chrome. Some of you may not know, but the Chrome browser actually has three concurrent builds maintained by Google.
