Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads 195
An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version features a big boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of 'smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,' according to Google. Starting with this release, the scheduler more aggressively uses an idle connection and demotes the priority of preloaded resources so that they don’t interfere with critical assets."
Re:5% (Score:5, Informative)
Latency. The world isn't getting any smaller.
Re:5% (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Flashblock (Score:4, Informative)
Extension? Chrome and Firefox both have that capability native these days.
Firefox: Go to about:config and search for click_to. Turn it to true. (It's really neat and even tells you what type of content you'll load before you click.)
Chrome: Go to chrome://settings/content and select Click to play for plugins.
Re: Opera with text-only (Score:4, Informative)
Links (elinks I think is the package name) is a console browser with some CSS layout support (unlike lynx when I replaced it).
Re:Holy Mackerel (Score:5, Informative)
If you want a Google Chrome like browser I would recommend Chromium, which unlike Google Chrome is open source and doesn't track you as much as their proprietary product. You will miss out on some of the extra features available only in Google Chrome, but most of it should be the same.