Razer’s testing a new tool for customizing its keyboards in your browser

Razer has announced the beta merchandise of a caller online customization tool compatible pinch respective versions of its Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards astatine launch. Razer Synapse Web isn’t a afloat replacement for the company’s Synapse 4 desktop app. It’s alternatively designed to beryllium a streamlined replacement accessible done a browser for situations wherever you’re not able, aliases don’t person the time, to download and instal Razer’s desktop software.

Razer Synapse Web is now disposable for testing but is only compatible pinch Chromium-based browsers including Google Chrome, Opera, Brave, and Microsoft Edge. It presently supports the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro 8KHz, Huntsman V3 Pro TKL 8KHz, and Huntsman V3 Pro Mini keyboards, but the institution says support for much hardware will “follow arsenic the level expands.”

The browser-based instrumentality is described arsenic a “lightweight tuning hub” and won’t characteristic each options disposable done Razer’s desktop software. But Synapse Web will still fto you set settings and “core features” done simplified controls; view, edit, and prevention existing civilization profiles stored connected a connected device; and entree Razer Chroma RGB speedy effects lighting presets for illustration fire, ripples, aliases cycling done the colour spectrum.

Despite its constricted functionality, Synapse Web will besides beryllium a invited replacement for gamers already juggling desktop companion apps for different devices, but it’s not an wholly caller idea. Companies for illustration Keychron already offer robust browser-based configuration devices for their keyboards, arsenic do keyboards that usage open-source firmware for illustration QMK