Google Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world, and by a significant margin. Chrome got there in part because it had a reputation for being very fast. The fact that it comes pre-installed on billions of Android phones probably helped, but the browser's rise began before Android gained significant market share.
However, Chrome's success is not easy and its rival, Mozilla Firefox, has made significant strides in the past two years in performance and stability (while most other competitors have started calmly, using the same Chromium programming code, on which Google builds its browser). To maintain its dominance, Google must continue to invent new ways to keep Chrome's speed.
TechSpot has uncovered an interesting update from Chrome developers about a new plan to make recently viewed web pages load faster. Like almost every decent browser, Chrome caches images, text, and other page elements that you’ve previously downloaded to make reloading faster. The new plan will incorporate more page data into this content cache, and the potential performance boost could be quite noticeable.
The engineering manager of Google, Addy Osmani, says that this cache improvement “could improve performance by up to 19% on mobile Chrome”. However, the company is also working on a desktop version of Chrome.
Obviously, this change will be made on Windows, on macOS, on Chrome OS and on Linux.
As for the iOS version of Chrome, Asmandi says that “Chrome chooses not to use the bkcache application of WebKit, due to incompatibility with Chrome’s multi‑process architecture”. Given that Apple authorizes all browsers on iOS to use the WebKit engine, apparently for security reasons, it sounds as if the Chrome team will have to be especially creative if it wants to extend this effort to iPhones and iPads.
