Chrome OS 80 Lands Late With Some Moderate Changes, Bug Fix

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Chrome OS 80 is reportedly finally beginning its rollout, delivering a couple of fixes, app sideloading, and a bump to the Linux container. For the change that will be noticed in Chrome OS 80 on the Stable Channel, Google is now allowing Android apps to be sideloaded. In short, users that turn on three flags at that URL will now be able to put their device in tablet mode and get a dramatically revamped tab switching UI. But its appearance behind Stable Channel flags is promising and the new tab strip could arrive fairly quickly, pending the discovery of any bugs. Chrome OS 81 is slated to arrive on March 24, giving Google just shy of three weeks to get its affairs in order on that front.

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