Google Chrome has been working on sharing web pages via QR codes for quite some time. However, the feature is finally coming to the stable channel of the browser with Chrome 84. First spotted by Android Police, the feature is available on both Chrome desktop, and Chrome for Android.
Once you’ve enabled these, just re-launch Chrome. Then, you can simply tap to share a page, and tap on ‘QR Code’ as the mode of sharing. Chrome will then show you a QR code that can be scanned to head over to the URL you shared. The QR code can also be downloaded by the way, so you can quickly send it over to your teammates via Slack or Email if you want.
- chrome://flags/#sharing-qr-code-generator
Here, however, you will have to right click on the page you want to share and select ‘Create QR Code for this page’ in order to get the QR code displayed. Android Police states that the QR code option also appears in the URL bar, at the right end of the bar. That option only appears when you click on the address bar in Chrome, at least that’s how it’s showing up for me.
