The battle between the major developers of the most important web browsers continues unabated. Among these are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox.
Although we have a multitude of programs within this specific software sector at our fingertips, these three are the main alternatives. Hence, they try to win over followers for their projects in one way or another. Now, we’re going to talk about an important new feature coming to Google’s Chrome browser, which is a clear copy of its competition.
We’re telling you all this because it’s just been discovered that Gemini’s AI in Chrome is now copying the idea of the sidebar for Microsoft Edge’s Copilot on Windows 11. We’ve already told you on several occasions over the past few weeks that Google’s artificial intelligence, Gemini, is slowly making its way to Chrome. Initially, everything suggested that it would be integrated into a sidebar that we could show or hide. Well, now there are compelling reasons to believe that Gemini will definitely appear in a sidebar and that we’ll be able to use the feature inside or outside of the browser.
In short, we can say that its behavior will be similar to the way Copilot is integrated into Microsoft Edge. Based on a new release from the Chromium project, Gemini in Chrome, which is currently codenamed Glic, could be resized, something similar to what can be done with Copilot within MS Edge. Additionally, this AI could be decoupled from Google Chrome and appear as an independent sidebar in Windows 11 so that we can use it outside of the web browser itself.
Google copies Microsoft’s AI behavior
In fact, Google Chrome engineer Keren Zhu describes the Gemini sidebar in Chrome as a widget, which gives us a glimpse into how it works. One reason for this is that it floats when we click the Chrome menu button. In addition, Google is also introducing a change to the Gemini sidebar that makes the widget non-translucent.
What’s unknown at the moment is whether the widget will be translucent within Google Chrome, or whether it will appear outside of the program when we click the Gemini button on the taskbar. At the same time, the search giant claims it’s a requirement for the resizable window in Windows, so it’s possible it’s referring to the widget within the browser.
Likewise, it appears that the previous implementation of Gemini in Chrome had rounded corners in Windows 10, but that has disappeared, all due to Microsoft’s requirements. In Windows 11, they may add rounded corners back depending on users’ system settings. We don’t yet know when Gemini will start rolling out to everyone in Chrome, but there’s no doubt that its behavior will be very similar to Copilot in Edge.
