Chrome Browser updates from January 2025
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Admins can now customize the Chrome Web Store experience for their users with several new options.
Admins can customize the Chrome Web Store experience for their users with branding, curated collections, and category controls.
Release: GA • Rapid: 2025-01-29 • Scheduled: 2025-01-29 -
Admins can now customize the Chrome Web Store experience for their organization.
Google Workspace admins can now tailor the Chrome Web Store for their users by adding company branding, custom welcome banners, and announcement banners. They can also organize curated collections of recommended or private extensions, including a specific collection for IT-allowlisted items, and hide certain extension categories. Additionally, the search experience for end-users has been improved with blocked item tags and a 'Private items' filter to streamline the discovery of approved extensions.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2025-01-29 • Scheduled: 2025-01-29 -
New Chrome browser profile list and reporting features for signed-in Google Workspace users.
These new capabilities give IT administrators more insight into Chrome user profiles in their organization. The report includes a new managed profiles list and detail pages where IT administrators can find information such as profile details, browser versions, policies applied, extensions installed and more.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2025-01-14 • Scheduled: 2025-01-14 -
New Chrome browser profile reporting features available in the Admin console for Google Workspace users.
Google Workspace customers with Chrome Enterprise Core now have access to a new Chrome browser profile list and reporting features in the Admin console. This update provides IT administrators with detailed insights into managed profiles, including browser versions, applied policies, and installed extensions, enabling them to identify potential security risks and better analyze user interaction with the Chrome browser.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2025-01-14 • Scheduled: 2025-01-14