{"id":376267,"date":"2020-11-18T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=376267"},"modified":"2020-11-18T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T05:52:22","slug":"google-chrome-gets-biggest-performance-update-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/376267-google-chrome-gets-biggest-performance-update-in-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome gets biggest performance update in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/chrome\/faster-chrome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>officially rolled out<\/strong><\/a> an update to its Chrome web browser which brings significant performance and power usage improvements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This month&#8217;s update represents the largest gain in Chrome performance in years, thanks to many under-the-hood improvements,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest performance improvements are summarised below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chrome now prioritizes your active tabs vs everything that\u2019s open &#8211; reducing CPU usage by up to 5x and extending battery life by up to 1.25 hours.<\/li>\n<li>Chrome now starts up to 25% faster, loads pages up to 7% faster, and does all of this using less power and RAM than before.<\/li>\n<li>Chrome on Android now loads pages near instantaneously when you navigate backward and forward, making these common tasks super fast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chrome has previously rolled out the ability to pin tabs, send them to other devices, and group them within the browser, and it has now added a tab search function to the browser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019ll now be able to see a list of your open tabs &#8211; regardless of the window they\u2019re in &#8211; then quickly type to find the one you need,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>The address bar is Chrome has also been improved, with certain functionality becoming embedded in its interface.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this release, we\u2019re expanding what you can do in the address bar with Chrome Actions &#8211; a faster way to get things done with just a few keystrokes,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example: when you type &#8216;edit passwords,&#8217; or &#8216;delete history,&#8217; you can now take action directly from the bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google is also adding cards to the new tab page in Chrome, which allows users to quickly access recently-visited and related content on the web.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cards in Chrome will help you pick up where you left off. They include recently-visited and related content, and they&#8217;ll start showing up for some users on the new tab page, underneath the shortcuts,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>Google said that all of these features, in addition to others it will share later, are rolling out over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/375939-big-dstv-streaming-changes-what-you-need-to-know.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big DStv streaming changes \u2013 What you need to know<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has officially rolled out an update to its Chrome web browser which brings significant performance and power usage improvements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1567,167,41536],"class_list":["post-376267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376267"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}