Chrome to soon support keyboard's "Play" and "Pause" buttons

ZDNet has officially announced that Chrome to support for multimedia keys locate on desktop and laptop keyboards on the new feature Chrome 73 that will be soon be released next month.

That simply signifies that when one hit on the "play" or "pause" button on the keyboard Chrome should respond. According to them the new feature Chrome will be available for Windows, MacOS and Chrome OS with support for Linux experting later but date not yet specified.

Chrome's support for the keys will take place at the browser level rather than the tab level, which means multimedia buttons will work even when Chrome is operating in the background or minimized. If you're watching a YouTube video and you pull up another app while the video is playing, hitting the pause button will still stop it. You can see the feature in action on a demo page set up by the Chrome team or test it out in the Chrome 73 Beta and Chrome Canary builds that are available now.

Initial support for multimedia keys within Chrome 73 will include commands for "play," "pause," "previous track," "next track," "seek backward," and "seek forward." It will also ship with a Media Session API that will let developers customize how their sites and apps interact with multimedia keys. Chrome will be the first browser to offer such support.