Chrome 45 New Features

Time flies!
Since my last update on Chrome 44 we had the chance to see the market crash and quite a lot of new features that were baked into Chrome 45.
The main improvements you should take a closer look at:

• A set of new ES2015 features including:
  • Arrow functions – Arrow functions are always anonymous and effectively turn function (arguments) { expression } into arguments => expression.
  • New methods on Array
  • New methods on TypedArray
  • Object.assign() copies the values (of all enumerable own properties) from one or more source objects to a target object.
    It has a signature of Object.assign(target, ...sources)
• SMIL is deprecated – to learn more please check out the discussion.
• This (long time) bug is fixed.
• Web Bluetooth is now available in Chrome OS 45.
  It’s still in Developer Preview and the team is actively looking for developer feedback.

Chrome for Android Media controls
On Android, native apps can show media controls in a system notification when playing audio, making it easy for users to control audio while multitasking. Chrome 45 brings this capability to the web by showing a notification with media controls when audio is playing in web content. The controls will automatically show up when <audio> or <video> tags play audio longer than 5 seconds. It will look like this:

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