The play/pause button is located on the toolbar (in Chrome Canary nightly builds for now) as a quick and easy way to control media playback in any tab with a single click or tap.

The feature, named global media controls, has showed up in Chrome Canary and allows one to utilize a play/pause button to start and stop videos playing in any tab at will.

The GCM Play/Pause button will be added to Chrome's desktop versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux. No word on Chrome OS, but it's very likely that the button will work there as well.

The new Play and Pause button control will be added to Chrome's desktop version for Windows, Linux and Mac. The feature right now is very buggy and has a lot of crashing issues, every time you try ...

Something to look forward to: Users of Google Chrome are soon likely to see a play/pause button in their browser's toolbar. Currently undergoing testing, the Global Media Controls feature is a ...

Google Chrome's "Global Media Controls" feature, which would add a Play/Pause button to the toolbar, is currently being tested in Chrome Canary.

The play/pause button is located on the toolbar (in Chrome Canary nightly builds for now) as a quick and easy way to control media playback in any tab with a single click or tap.