Being worked on for Chrome 80 ahead of its stable introduction in 2020 are:
- The introduction of a Content Indexing API for letting web apps know what resources are already cached locally.
- Chrome is now auto-upgrading video and audio content from HTTP to HTTPS on HTTPS websites.
- JavaScript support for Gzip and deflate compression using Streams.
- Decoding information is now available for encrypted media for allowing web-sites/back-ends to know about what video decoding might be available on the client for best power/performance.
- Support for SVG-based favicons! About darn time.
- Text URL fragments support for highlighting text on a page and scrolling to that text fragment via the URL.
- Continued FTP support deprecation with now only displaying directories and downloading resources.
- Support for the nullish operator within JavaScript.
- WebVR 1.1 support with VR HMDs like the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard.
More details via the Chromium blog and ChromeStatus.com.
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