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 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.

At one point in macOS history, if you had a Play/Pause button on your keyboard, it kept “focus” on whatever the last music app you used was. Then Apple broadened that to include anything with ...

Google is adding a new function to play, pause, or skip through videos or music via the toolbar to its Chrome browser, though it is currently only available via the Canary development browser and ...

That means when you hit the "play" or "pause" button on your keyboard, Chrome should respond in kind. The feature will be available with the release of Chrome 73 for Windows, ...

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

As currently implemented, the play/pause button is of limited value because it crashes the browser very time. The only thing I was able to do with it is bring it up in the browser.