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Google Chrome's Gemini AI Features Roll Out to UK Users

Google has announced the rollout of Chrome's latest AI features to Mac and PC users in the U.K., indicated by a new "Ask Gemini" button with a sparkle icon in the upper right side of the browser.

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Gemini in Chrome can work across multiple tabs, which is supposed to make it useful for comparing and summarizing information from several websites at once.

It also integrates with Google services such as Calendar, YouTube, Gmail, and Maps, allowing users to perform tasks like jumping to a specific moment in a YouTube video, scheduling a meeting, or drafting an email without leaving the current webpage.

The rollout includes Nano Banana, a new AI tool that can be used to generate images from text prompts right from the browser's sidebar.

Google says the new AI features will also be coming to iOS in the U.K. next month.

If you're not interested in any of this stuff, you can simply right-click on the Ask Gemini button at the upper right corner of Chrome and select Unpin to remove it from the browser.

Gemini's Chrome integration was initially limited to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but Google expanded access to all desktop users in the US in September 2025, followed by rollouts to over 50 countries.

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Top Rated Comments

AndyUnderscoreR Avatar
9 weeks ago
Thanks for giving us removal instructions, hopefully that's the last I'll see of this week's unwanted attempt to ram slop down my throat.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
krspkbl Avatar
9 weeks ago
Nobody is forcing you to use AI lol. I think this is cool. Might give it a try.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 weeks ago
Good for those in the region wanting to try out the new features. For me I prefer not to have so much AI integration into a browser and that too in Chrome.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dannys1 Avatar
9 weeks ago
Not available in my Chrome - i've been trying to turn this on for the last couple of weeks, I want to automate a few tasks now that i've quit Perplexity.

Edit: Oh it's garbage, it's nothing more than Gemini that gets context of any tabs you send it. I thought it was full browser control like Claude in Chrome - something actually useful for the Gemini sub, but nope.

Honestly Google are quickly losing ground in this race. Unlike Apple they've tried to join it but then have hugely unpopular products like Gravity and Gemini CLI which are just not touch by people compared to Claude Code or Codex.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 weeks ago
Sounds useful (uk person here).

The amount of data that google will have on you in the cloud will be immense though.

I hope we can trust them that they will not do anything with this…
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Le_Chiffre Avatar
9 weeks ago
Fastest way to kill chrome.
Good job Google. 😂
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