Google Chrome is about to get much faster
- 8 years ago
Google announced that it will begin to roll out an update to Chrome that will make your browser speeds much faster.
The update contains a new data compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google first unveiled in September.
It squishes the size of a website down by 26% more than Chrome's previous compression tool, Zopfli.
In a Google+ post, Google engineer Ilya Grigorik announced that Brotli will be coming to Chrome soon, likely in the browser's next major update.
"At Google, we think that internet users' time is valuable, and that they shouldn't have to wait long for a webpage to load," Google (GOOG) said in a September blog post, Google made the code open-souce, meaning it can be used by any competing browser.
Mozilla, for example, says it will use the code in Firefox.
The update contains a new data compression algorithm called Brotli, which Google first unveiled in September.
It squishes the size of a website down by 26% more than Chrome's previous compression tool, Zopfli.
In a Google+ post, Google engineer Ilya Grigorik announced that Brotli will be coming to Chrome soon, likely in the browser's next major update.
"At Google, we think that internet users' time is valuable, and that they shouldn't have to wait long for a webpage to load," Google (GOOG) said in a September blog post, Google made the code open-souce, meaning it can be used by any competing browser.
Mozilla, for example, says it will use the code in Firefox.