But that could all be about to change, thanks to some clever changes coming to Chrome.

The update was confirmed by Chrome team member François Beaufort on Google+.

Writing on his social network page, he revealed: “The chrome team is experimenting in Dev Channel with improving the ‘Cast a tab’ experience by forwarding directly the video content bitstream to the Chromecast device when a video is fullscreened.

“This ‘simple’ feature allows to save battery and keep video quality intact.”

Chrome users only need to toggle on full-screen mode, and the software will do the rest.

This should result in much higher quality video playback – as if you had played the footage from within a Chromecast compatible app.

If you have a Chromecast device, you can test-out the feature right now.

Load a Chrome browser tab and navigate to chrome://flags/#media-remoting, then enable the highlighted flag and restart the app.

Click on the Google Chrome main menu to find the “Cast…” option. When you load the video fullscreen you should see the boost in streaming quality on your TV.

The news comes as Google announced plans to make copy-and-paste much easier on Android phones.

Copying and pasting information on your phone or tablet can often be trickier than on a PC or laptop, especially if you’ve got a device with a small screen.

Attempting to tap on the right letters or numbers can often leave users pawing at their screen, but now help is at hand.

The tool takes information from when you use Chrome, and transplant that over to other Google-made apps.

For example, if you had visited a restaurant’s website in Chrome, and then switched to Google Maps, your keyboard would offer up the name of that restaurant as a suggestion to enter into the search bar.

Google says that the data is only stored locally, meaning the company never receives any of the information.

The feature also won’t work if you’re using incognito tabs, with all information in that browser still remaining hidden.