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Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-winning-the-version-race-against-firefox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version features a big boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of 'smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,' according to Google. Starting with this release, the scheduler more aggressively uses an idle connection and demotes the priority of preloaded resources so that they don’t interfere with critical assets."

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  1. Re:Holy Mackerel by rcjhawk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Loaded 27 onto my laptop. It was so fast, the computer launched itself out of the house at FTL speed and is now tweeting from somewhere around Alpha Centauri.
    Guess I'll replace it with a Chromebook.

  2. So... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is "'smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,'" a codeword for 'not loading huge fucking flash objects from shitty overloaded ad servers'? Because that really helps with load times...

  3. Re:5% by noh8rz10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    given that much of what we have today is a nearly proper superset of ten years ago, there wouldn't be much stopping you from doing 10-year-old page styles on modern browsers

    [blink]i disagree![/blink]