Google Search and Discover no longer open sites in fullscreen on Android - 9to5Google

In a curious change, the Google Search app and Discover on Android no longer opens sites in fullscreen, but rather makes use of a sheet.

When opening a Search result or Discover article (both the Google app feed and to the left of Discover), websites now open in a sheet that shows a sliver of the current background.

When in Search, you either get the Google logo if you tap the first result or the field with your query as the background.

Meanwhile, this web sheet is still a Chrome Custom Tab, with Google reminding you that it’s “Running Chrome” at the top until the page fully loads.

We’re encountering this change on a handful of Pixel phones running Google app 13.37, which is currently in beta

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