Your Chrome browser just got a useful tab split-view mode - along with other upgrades

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Chrome just got three new features, none of which use AI.
• One new tool lets you fill out PDFs without downloading.
• Another tool automatically backs up your PDF downloads.

Google recently announced a trio of new productivity features for Chrome, all aimed at increasing your productivity. In a surprising departure from the norm these days, none of them use AI.

Chrome seems to get new features regularly, but as of late, they almost always included some form of AI, such as Auto Browse, which lets Gemini perform multi-step personal tasks across the web.

Also: Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro is here, and it just doubled its reasoning score

The latest additions are aimed at making your life a little easier, from filling out forms to finding your downloads.

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