Taking a quick test spin. Seems to be enabled (on mac) by the existing "Gemini in Chrome" extension but requires a Chrome update. Which has a global shortcut (across all mac apps) of "Ctrl+g" (this can be changed). The additional AI features seem to come from the tab content's integration into the Gemini console (previously (I believe) the Gemini extension was merely a thin console to the Gemini service)).

The direct tab integration works by first showing the Gemini console (ctrl-g or Gemini icon in the mac system tray) where there is then a 'Share current page' icon below the text view.

This adds a blue border around the chrome window indicating the current page can be shared with chrome. It's not clear, but I believe the page content is only shared once a prompt is made intending to use the page's content. However, the share-enablement remains enabled for all tabs (all tab windows will have the blue border) until turned off in the Gemini consol. Again, it's not clear if just merely browsing these tabs will automatically share that content with Google.

The Gemini integration does not perform actions (can't ask it to do stuff directly with the site's content (navigate, click buttons, etc).

But direct summarization works well (try it on an HN comment page or news article).

Overall, I like this feature as long as I understand what and when things are being shared and ability to turn off easily.

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the_snooze 2 days ago | parent [-]

>It's not clear, but I believe the page content is only shared once a prompt is made intending to use the page's content.

If it's only processing page content as the user requests it, then how would feature 4 "Find webpages you previously visited" work? Seems like it would need to process everything in order to enable prompt-based content recall.

	▲	zamadatix 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The article seems to say and show that once you prompt it searches your history by page titles and can then dig deeper into the top hits. The permissions in Chrome seem to agree with this: > History search, powered by AI Use everyday language to search your browsing history and find sites you visited. You can also ask questions and get answers based on your browsing history. > When you search browsing history, your history searches, the page content of best matches, and generated model outputs are sent to Google It's also worth noting enabling history awareness is a separate toggle from having Gemini enabled, and it doesn't seem to be able to answer anything about history when I turn it off. Sharing the currently open pages also seems to be a separate permissions toggle from either of these.