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Google has been working on optimizing the Chrome browser for a while now. Last year the Chrome team announced that it would be trying to reduce RAM usage and now the browser is set to be up to 25 percent faster thanks to an upcoming update that targets performance improvements.
Google is rolling out a new system called Brotli, a compression algorithm that is now ready for public use and will be rolling out in the next release of Chrome.
This news comes from Google Chrome engineer, Ilya Grigorik writing on Google+. The performance boost will see pages launch up to 25 percent faster depending on your system. The Brotli algorithm is also designed to only work over secure, encrypted web connections.
We don't yet know when Google is planning to release the next stable version of Chrome but it should be sometime within the next month. The update will appear on your machine if you have Chrome automatically update.
KitGuru Says: Chrome is the most popular web browser right now so any performance boosts Google can bring to the table will go appreciated by many. How many of you use Chrome? Do you think it needs a bit of a speed boost?
Niiice.
Actually if you have fast internet it will make absolutely no difference… It will only add some lag (because of compression-decompression time) on streaming sites. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/11/better-than-gzip-compression-with-brotli/
the idea isn’t about connectivity, it’s about your pc being able to handle the browser’s hunger for RAM , as someone who has 28+ tabs pinned to my chrome browser i experience how RAM intensive this is all the time, if i wish to play a game i’ll have to close down chrome in order to get a smooth framerate on anything
It will actually take more ram. It’s about reducing internet traffic and make pages load faster, this is what they talk about, whatever it can be called, users will feel it as “performance” improvement. It will make a huge difference on big webpages tho.
Here are some tables where were done some tests how better it will compress.
http://textslashplain.com/2015/09/10/brotli/
From the article:
“Whether or not a significant portion of your userbase is using a browser that supports Brotli as a content encoding, whether the added latency and memory costs are worth it, and whether your HTTPS server or CDN support Brotli is another story.”
And I have 1429 tabs open in Opera 34, with option “delay loading tabs enabled” and with vertical tabs extension to manage them in groups 😛
Cheers
Why on earth do you need that many tabs open? xD
Dang and I was just getting to the point I was enjoying my new 16gb of ram with 100 or so tabs open in chrome. If it slows me down I’ll be pissed.
Not because I need, but because I can. I just stopped using bookmarks… xD
Chrome is already pretty fast. There are occasions where Edge is faster, yes, I said Edge, is faster but that’s extremely situation. I like Chrome the way it is now. The only thing that I can think of as a con is YouTube. And I’m mentioning this here because Google can do something about it, since it’s their company long time ago now. YouTube, along with Google Chrome, is forcing Hardware Acceleration as default option. This can lead to many problems when playing a game or you just have a weak GPU, since the temps will raise easily. Also, Google Chrome, unlike Mozilla and Edge, just love the new HEVC / x265 codec, or VP9 if that’s more familiar to you. That codec(s) is totally not supported buy wast majority of hardware – GPUs. Only a small percentage of GPUs and iGPUs can decode it with hardware support. So us, with lower end or older GPUs, have to rely on CPU to do this the decoding. So, again, if you play a YouTube video on 4K@60fps on Google Chrome, it will take about 90% of your CPU, in this case mine is i7 3770K.
But on the other side, you can’t blame them too much. Mozilla and Edge cannot play 4K60fps or even anything above 1080p@60fps. Only videos that are not 60fps are available in all resolutions. Which means up to 1080p60 and up to 4K30. And yes, you guessed it, if the video is recorded in 60fps in 4K, Mozilla and Edge won’t “see” it as an option. 🙂
Kinda a bummer imo
To be fair, the “average” user has no idea what book marks are, or how to fully utilise them, hence many users now pin tabs or keep them open. If chrome had a better bookmark system (AKA firefox) AND educated users on the bookmark system, people wouldnt need 50 thousand tabs open all the time.
I personally use Firefox with a nice session manager. It allows me to save session of tabs if i need them for something and book mark tab for later. Hence i never go over 10 open.
Anonimo is right about reducing internet traffic, and nothing to do with RAM usage