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Chrome Should Get 'Extremely Fast' at Loading a Whole Lot of Web Pages (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-what-it-is-worth dept.

Chrome is going to get a big speed boost -- at least for web pages you've recently visited. CNET: With a feature called bfcache -- backward-forward cache -- Google's web browser will store a website's state as you navigate to a new page. If you then go back to that page, Chrome will reconstitute it rapidly instead of having to reconstruct it from scratch. Then, if you retrace your steps forward again, Chrome will likewise rapidly pull that web page out of its memory cache. The speed boost doesn't help when visiting new websites. But this kind of navigation is very common: Going back accounts for 19 percent of pages viewed on Chrome for Android and 10 percent on Chrome for personal computers, Google said. With bfcache, that becomes "extremely fast."

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  1. Re:Background tabs CPU throttling - current status by roca · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox does throttle CPU in background tabs. For a very long time APIs like setTimeout have been throttled aggressively.

    There has been quite recent work on using OS APIs to reduce the priority of processes running background tabs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...

  2. Very common. Really? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But this kind of navigation is very common:

    Not for me. When I'm viewing a page that has multiple sub-pages of interest, I tend to open a new tab for those sub pages. For example, one tab for the /. main page and a new tab for each article I read -- similarly for actual news sites. :-) Don't really know why I would want to go back and forth within a single tab.

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  3. Re:More RAM waste for benchmark "wins" by TFlan91 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I back this up.

    Pi-Hole regularly blocks between 60 - 80% of my internet traffic with daily browsing, and down to about 40 - 50% when I'm working.

    It definitely increases browsing speed, page performance, resource usage, etc

  4. Re:Don't use it, don't care by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for your insight. To make it easier on us in the future can you please list in alphabetical order all the things you don't use so we don't accidentally bother you again?

  5. Retracing your steps forward? by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only Alt-Right people would do such a thing.

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