[Cruising around with the top down] Chromebooks will get power settings for closing the lid

Today Chromium Evangelist François Beaufort revealed a new feature in the current Canary channel for ChromeOS. Chromebook users everywhere can now look forward to being able to set the activity their device performs when the lid is closed. In the current Dev, Beta, and Stable channels, the behavior can't be changed, and when the lid is shut the device goes to sleep, but users that migrate to the Canary channel (or who are fine waiting) will be able to set their Chromebook to stay awake.  This seems to be one of those incredibly polarizing features that you either desperately need or don't care about. Read More [Cruising around with the top down] Chromebooks will get power settings for closing the lid was written by the awesome team at Android Police. Android Match ae http://androidmatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default