{"id":190854,"date":"2016-12-07T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T08:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190854"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T08:53:44","slug":"chrome-55-for-android-rolling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/190854-chrome-55-for-android-rolling-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome 55 for Android rolling out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0new version of Chrome for Android &#8211; which adds downloading pages for offline viewing &#8211; is rolling out, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2016\/12\/06\/chrome-55-android-stable\/\" target=\"_blank\">9to5Google reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/180816-chrome-for-android-gets-new-data-saver-and-offline-viewing-features.html\">new features for Google&#8217;s mobile browser<\/a><\/strong> were announced in\u00a0September and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/185560-google-chrome-now-faster-on-windows-pcs.html\">new version of Chrome\u00a0for Windows, Mac, and Linux<\/a><\/strong> has been out since November.<\/p>\n<p>9to5Google reported that you can find a\u00a0new save icon at the top of the overflow menu to save full web pages.<\/p>\n<p>Audio and video player controls will feature a save icon next to the scrubber to initiate the background download.<\/p>\n<p>All saved content and media is organised in a new &#8220;Downloads&#8221; screen, which can be found in\u00a0Chrome&#8217;s overflow menu.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome 55 for Android also promises to run better on RAM-strapped devices.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0JavaScript heap size reduction and zone memory reduction, devices with 512MB of RAM or less\u00a0will see up to 35% less memory usage.<\/p>\n<p>More-powerful devices\u00a0will also benefit from zone memory\u00a0reduction, due to lower memory consumption during background parsing.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/186689-google-chrome-hits-2-billion-active-installs.html\">Google Chrome hits 2 billion active installs<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of Chrome for Android is starting to roll out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":158089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[36,397,40102,8729,167],"class_list":["post-190854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-active","tag-android","tag-chrome-55","tag-chrome-for-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190872,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190854\/revisions\/190872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}