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. It loads pages up to 7 percent faster, “and does all of this using less power and RAM than before.” The browser now launches 25 percent faster - hopefully to where you’ll notice the difference. “We’ve done this without sacrificing the background features that users care about, like playing music and getting notifications.”īut even opening Chrome should feel faster. Chrome now will prioritize your active tab over the others in the background, “reducing CPU usage by up to 5x and extending battery life by up to 1.25 hours (based on our internal benchmarks).” Google goes into greater detail on just what it’s doing to keep tabs in check (hint: it involves throttling JavaScript) at the Chromium blog. Sounds pretty exciting on the surface, no? Waddell says a slew of under-the-hood changes and optimizations have led to boosts to Chrome on several fronts. “This month’s update represents the largest gain in Chrome performance in years,” Matt Waddell, Chrome’s director of product, wrote in a blog post. Google is wrapping up 2020 with what it claims are major performance enhancements to the company’s Google Chrome browser.
