Google Chrome 34 Is Out: Responsive Images, Supervised Users

An anonymous reader writes "Google today released Chrome version 34 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes support for responsive images, an unprefixed version of the Web Audio API, and importing supervised users. You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome."

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Responsive Images

[ADRA]

In case anyone wanted to know what responsive images are, I googles this imformative article on the subject:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/...

Nah...TL:DR

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

A "responsive image" will load either a small or large version (or multiple versions) depending on the browsers's screen resolution. To do this, it makes an extra request to the server before requesting the appropriate image size.

(The referenced Opera article prattles on and on - Google's faster.)

Re:Nah...TL:DR

[Anonymous Coward]

Soo... they reinvented mipmapping?

Re:Nah...TL:DR

[Travis Mansbridge]

Sort of, except its purpose is to reduce load time over the internet rather than increasing render efficiency for the client (nobody's computer struggles to display static images on a web page)

Re:Nah...TL:DR

[Bengie]

Reminds me of viewing porn as a child and watching the images slowly "come into focus".

Re:HiDPI

[The MAZZTer]

It is in the works. You can check their progress by opening chrome://flags/#high-dpi-support and enabling the experiment.

Rather have vector

[Chelloveck]

I have a dream... Where, instead of learning to support some new "responsive image" paradigm, the web designers of the world focus their efforts on learning to make use of the responsive vector images that browsers already support.

Re:Rather have vector

[Desler]

Ignoring the fact that most images on the web are not vector-based to begin with?

Re:Rather have vector

[locopuyo]

I'll just snap a vector image here with my camera....

Vectorize this

[tepples]

True, with IE for XP officially dead, it's finally safe to use SVG on the vast majority of browsers. But good luck efficiently vectorizing a photograph received through a camera lens.

Re:Memory usage?

[Ingenium13]

Wow, that's surprising. Chrome eats memory on Ubuntu 12.04. Using version 34, with 19 tabs open, I'm using 2.9GB of private memory and 1GB proportional. This page is using 150MB for me. Maybe it's a 64-bit thing? After a day or so memory usage will approach 6-8GB.

I've found gmail to be particularly bad. My gmail tab is at 400MB right now, but within 24 hours it will balloon to 1GB and then keep growing. I think it usually ends up around 2-2.5GB after a few days, but I've seen it higher. I think there must be some kind of JS memory leak or something.

That said, it's not usually that big of a deal for me. I have 16GB of RAM, most of which is just cache unless I load a VM. Chrome's memory leaks do force me to close the browser and restart it though when I need to free up a few GB for running multiple simultaneous VMs.

Re: Google Chrome 34 is Out

[Zanadou]

You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater

Whoa, whoa, slow down... could you walk me though that?

Just this one page as a tab

[justthinkit]

32-bit Windows -- chrome taking 256MB...at first. Has shrunk down to 165MB a few minutes later. Not my idea of acceptable memory usage.

Opera, with 17 tabs, and it has been running for a few days, is only using 323MB

Let me know

[Lord Kano]

when they add a menu bar. Until then, I have ZERO interest in Chrome.
I'm not trolling. I'm completely serious. Removing a standard UI component "just because" is an absolute deal breaker for me.

LK

Re:Let me know

[jez9999]

Then stop buying computer monitors that are designed for viewing Hollywood movies and start buying ones that are designed for general-purpose computing.