Google has released a major update for Chrome. It provides the biggest increase in browser performance in recent years, the developers noted.
Matt Waddell, Chrome's product director, says that a lot of internal changes and optimizations have led to improvements in Chrome in several ways. The first is related to tabs. Now your open tab will get priority over the background ones, reducing CPU usage up to 5 times and extending the battery life of laptops up to 1.25 hours.
This was achieved without sacrificing background functions that may be important to users (playing music and receiving notifications).
Opening Chrome should also be noticeably faster — at least 25%, and pages open 7% faster, and all this now uses much less energy and RAM than before.
Google also adds tab search, allowing you to quickly find the page you need. This can be useful when you have several dozen sites open. The feature will first debut on Chromebooks, and then become available for desktop versions of Chrome.
Tab search in #Chrome is a new way to find an open tab – just type the page name you’re looking and for and it’ll pop up. Learn more about this latest version of Chrome → https://t.co/NrsADN8PMv pic.twitter.com/1R5azL68lf
— Chrome (@googlechrome) November 17, 2020
Chrome's address bar is getting a little more useful thanks to what Google calls Chrome Actions —it's "a faster way to do something with just a few keystrokes." For example, now you can type "edit passwords" or "delete history" directly in the address bar and immediately go to the desired menu section in this way.
In addition, "cards" with hints will soon become available for some users, with the help of which it will be possible to quickly navigate to recently visited or related content on the Internet. This will save time when, for example, you decide to return to planning a trip, searching for gifts for holidays or other similar tasks.
The new version of Chrome is already available to users in most regions. If the update hasn't arrived on your PC yet, it's worth waiting a bit.
