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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. I'd rather have a 10x faster connection. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Come on, USA! Catch up to the rest of the world.

    1. Re:I'd rather have a 10x faster connection. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      Getting touchy are we? Frustrated people aren't bowing at your feet anymore? Have you tried acting like a normal human being instead of getting constantly ultra-defensive about your country? ... It's not just on Slashdot btw but everywhere, on the net and IRL. I live just North of the border and people start ranting about Americans all the time, without being prompted. This was not the case 15 years ago. Think about it.

  2. 5% by ArchieBunker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CPUs are magnitudes faster today than they were 10 years ago. Why is it that pages still take seconds to load? Go back 10 years and they still took the same amount of time. Why?

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  3. RAM usage is big issue, not CPU by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its memory usage that is such a great problem for me, not really the issue of CPU time. If chrome is constantly cuasing disk caching because of the enormous memory usage, that is going to cause massive speed degredation, which is far greater than any 5% decrease in CPU time by an algorithm. I wish Chrome had a feature for not storing uncompressed copies of image if they are off screen and would fix the massive memory holes. Really no reason a browser should use more than 5-10 MB of RAM per open tab.

    1. Re:RAM usage is big issue, not CPU by Lincolnshire+Poacher · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Buy more ram. It's cheap. You'll be much happier, and not just with chrome.

      Buying more RAM only makes sense if there is somewhere to put it.

      Of three laptops we have, one is limited to 8 GB and the two ultraportables to 2 GB.

  4. Re:I Tried It, But It Was Still Ridiculously Slow by Eravnrekaree · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a browser problem because the browser should not wait for all of those sites to be contacted before painting the page

  5. Re:Holy Mackerel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure, if you like Google knowing what you're browsing. I just dumped Chrome after several years for Firefox.

    It's too easy to use Google for everything.

  6. Re:Holy Mackerel by ILongForDarkness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think Google and FB and others like them have a lot of blame to share for the web needing a 10X fatter pipe to get the same speed: if every freaking page didn't have to talk to Google Analytics, send your cookie to FB for tracking etc either before (likely) or during page load perhaps you could actually enjoy the content you are there for in the first place on a slow connection. Now you need the fast pipe just to get all the preamble out of the way to all parties interested.