Google recently launched Chrome 89 with revamped profiles, reading list and more for PCs. The search giant is also showing love for Chrome on Android, with a new feature called “freeze-dried tabs” that supposedly makes the browser even faster.
Google on Thursday posted a blog post outlining how it enhances memory management and performance in Chrome 89, with one of the improvements being freeze-dried tabs. With the feature enabled, Google claims that Chrome launches on Android 13% faster.
“Chrome now stores a lightweight version of your tabs that is similar to a snapshot, but supports scrolling, zooming, and tapping links,” Google said. “We use these lyophilized tabs during startup while loading the actual tab in the background so you can get to your pages faster.”
In addition, Google said that with Chrome 89, it could reduce the number of crashes on Android due to resource depletion, a 5% improvement in memory usage, 7.5% faster startup times and up to 2% faster page loading.
Google has also confirmed which devices will get the 64-bit version of Chrome.
‘For those of you who have picked up the latest Android devices (Android Q + and 8 GB + RAM), we’ve rebuilt Chrome as a 64-bit binary, giving you a more stable Chrome up to 8.5% is faster to load pages and 28% smoother when it comes to browsing and input latency, ”Google said.
Google also said Chrome on Android now uses PartitionAlloc everywhere, the search giant’s advanced memory allocator, which is suitable for low allocation latency, space efficiency and security. The updated browser is also smarter to use (and throw away) memory and recovers up to 100MiB per tab by throwing away memory that the front cover tab is not actively using.
“Our teams are always working hard to provide you with the fastest and most powerful browser on each of your devices,” Google said.