WebMCP in Chrome 149: build agent tools without DOM scraping
Chrome 149 opened the WebMCP origin trial and the docs were revised on 7 August 2026. What both APIs do, what the permissions model blocks, and the order to ship tools in.
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Chrome ships every 14 days from 8 September 2026: the release-cadence playbook for web and QA teams
From Chrome 153 on 8 September 2026, a new major Chrome lands every two weeks instead of every four. Every milestone-numbered deprecation deadline in your backlog just moved forward in calendar time.
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Chrome removes XSLT on 17 November 2026: audit and migrate before Chrome 158
Chrome 158 stops running XSLT on 17 November 2026, and the origin trial and enterprise policy escape hatches expire on 17 August 2027. Here is how to find every XSLT dependency you own and choose a migration path
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Interop 2026: the cross-browser web features developers actually get this year
Interop 2026 commits Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla to 20 focus areas. After the 2025 cycle lifted the cross-browser pass rate from 29% to 97%, here is what front-end teams can finally rely on this year
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