Google Chrome is getting a killer upgrade to make browsing faster

Google Chrome is getting a killer upgrade to make browsing faster

If you routinely find that Google Chrome tabs load much slower than usual, Google has a solution. The search giant is planning several changes that will make tabs load up to 10 percent faster.

According to a new post on the official Chromium blog, the browser's latest improvements include Profile Guided Optimization and Tab Throttling, both of which offer a new Chrome experience.

As noted in the post, Chrome can reduce the loading time of active tabs. This is called tab throttling and is currently being rolled out through the Chrome Beta channel and will improve speed as well as memory and battery.

The Chromium team is working hard to perfect this feature, and the official blog notes "watch this space" for additional information on their work.

Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is also being deployed in Chrome M85 on Windows and Mac. This allows Chrome's most common tasks to be prioritized and load faster; tests conducted on both PCs and Macs show that it is even faster when the CPU is overloaded and multiple tabs or programs are running simultaneously.

If you're not worried about slowdowns when opening multiple tabs, Google announced a new feature in May that improves tab grouping. This feature allows users to collapse groups of tabs and expand them at will to access only what they need now.

Many similar usability improvements will be coming to the browser in the future as Google continues to enhance its proprietary browser. However, one of the latest experiments angered users with its tendency to "cut the address bar in half," and one hopes that Google will take user feedback into account when pushing out the next change.

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