Google Chrome will Automatically Download Offline Article, New Updated Features

Want to browse the news but don't have connection to the internet? Recently, Google has announced a good news for users, that is, Google Chrome is getting a new feature for Android that automatically downloads articles when you're connected to Wi-Fi for you to read offline -- even if you haven't asked for them.


On Thursday, Google announced the feature on the Google India blog. The blog says that the feature will be available soon in India, Brazil, Nigeria and over 100 other countries, but Whether it will be implemented in major economies such as China and the United States is unclear. If the feature is available in your region, you can get it by updating to the latest version of Google Chrome for Android. No word yet on when it'll come to other countries like the US or UK.

Based on user location of the most popular content, Google Chrome will automatically download it that a user may want to read, or if the user login Chrome, Google will analyze the user's browsing history and related download records, offline related articles for the user.

However, this feature is still not very reasonable now, because users don't know whether their mobile data is being abused or they just can't control these offline articles.

Content will only be downloaded when free, unmetered WiFi is available, and you have to be signed into Chrome so it can use your browsing history for recommendations. According to Google India's blog post, it will be available in "India, along with more than 100 countries including Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil," confirming the feature's focus on emerging markets.



Flags to control the settings


As pointed out in the comments, there are a couple of flags that seem to control this new auto-download feature:


  • #offline-pages-prefetching likely turns the setting on and off.
  • #offline-pages-prefetching-ui would appear to decide whether or not these articles are shown in the downloads section and toggles the previously mentioned notification.


Previously, Google Chrome for android has allowed users to download articles manually and view them offline, but this new feature will be automatically enabled. In addition, Google hasn't told how long these articles will store, or mentioned how much content to download in one time, if there is no upper limit, mobile storage space may be affected seriously.

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