Chrome users in India can now hand off multi-tab research tasks directly to Google's artificial intelligence. Google has expanded its Gemini integration in the browser, bringing auto browse to Indian desktop and mobile users alongside a wider rollout of free Gemini features on Android.
The update splits into two distinct tiers. Basic Gemini features inside Chrome on Android are free to anyone with the browser installed. Tapping the sparkle icon brings up a companion panel that can summarise articles, query the page in front of you, pull details into Google Calendar or Keep, and handle image edits through Nano Banana. That part costs nothing.
Auto browse is where things get agentic, and that part sits behind a paywall. You need an active Google AI Pro or Google AI Ultra membership to use it, whether you are on a computer or a phone.
What Auto Browse Actually Does
Instead of entering a search query and parsing dozens of tabs yourself, auto browse attempts to complete a workflow on your behalf. You provide a prompt describing the result you want. Gemini opens relevant web pages, extracts the figures or dates, navigates between them and compiles a single consolidated answer.
Practical use cases lean heavily on repetitive cross-checking. Planning trips by scanning flight schedules across varied travel weeks is one scenario Google highlights. Another is comparing product pricing across e-commerce storefronts, which lands right in the middle of India's festive sale rush. The tool can also handle form fields, extracting data directly from uploaded PDFs to populate online applications.
Safety guardrails remain in place to prevent accidental transactions. Before the automated agent can purchase an item or publish content to a linked social account, it halts the workflow and asks you for explicit manual approval.
Limits and Language Quirks
There are clear operational catches. Several websites now actively block automated interaction scripts, which abruptly stops auto browse in its tracks. In those situations, you are thrown straight back to manual navigation.
Google has also not clarified daily or monthly usage limits for auto browse tasks, leaving heavy users in the dark about when throttling might hit paid tiers. Language support is another immediate friction point. While Google recently added eight Indic languages to standard Gemini features inside Chrome, auto browse itself remains restricted to English. Even the official support pages still incorrectly state that the feature requires a United States location, despite it working actively across Indian accounts.
Indian Chrome users can access the new agentic browsing capabilities immediately by looking for the sparkle symbol inside their desktop or Android browser.
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