Chromebooks are about to get a prettier video player - Android

Chromebooks have an incredibly barebones video player interface that hasn't changed much over the years. It looks like Google finally wants to change that. The company is testing a much prettier video player in Canary, complete with enhanced, floating controls.

The fullscreen experience.

While the current video player experience is based on Chrome's aging HTML5-based video plugin, the new solution defers playback to the Media app that's also used for image viewing.

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