Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @03:05PM 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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Text colors and fonts.. by gonk · 2013-05-21 15:10 · Score: 0, Troll

It might be fast, but their font rendering sucks and they can't get text colors right. For those two reasons alone, I stick to FF. And yes, these are known bugs that have just not been fixed.
Re:I'd rather have a 10x faster connection. by DNS-and-BIND · 2013-05-21 15:19 · Score: 0, Troll

Ah, yes, does the "USA SUX0Rz!" flame ever get old on Slashdot? It truly is evergreen. Next time try spelling it "AmeriKKKa" for that extra authenticity.

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