Chrome 52 for Android Arrives With Smoother Video Playback, Faster Load Times, and Better Battery Life (venturebeat.com) 28
An anonymous reader shares a VentureBeat report: Following the release of Chrome 52 for desktop two weeks ago, Google last week also launched Chrome 52 for Android. For whatever reason, the company didn't share what's new until today. You can download the new version from Google Play. Chrome 52 for Android makes video playback feel smoother, load faster, and consume less battery. More specifically, video playback has been improved for speed and power efficiency, meaning you should expect smoother playback and faster load times (so videos will start playing sooner, instead of pausing briefly before starting). Your Android device's battery should also last longer if you consume a lot of videos online. Last but not least, video in Chrome for Android also now works with Data Saver Mode. This means a lightweight version of the video will be downloaded and played if you have Data Saver Mode on, saving you as much as 50 percent in data downloads, by Google's estimation.
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If you use anything, or even step out of the house, you are being spied on. Just use the best tool for the job.
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What about hangout? (Score:1)
FF droolz, Chrome rules! (Score:1)
No Changelog? Fuck that shit. (Score:2)
Google last week also launched Chrome 52 for Android. For whatever reason, the company didn't share what's new until today.
I wouldn't install an update if I had no way to see what's changed. I suppose people didn't have a choice in the matter though, if it was Chrome on Android.
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HTML5 Audio Tag is improved, too (Score:2)
With 50 and 51, one could preview the new media by turning on a chrome://flags setting. That setting is now default 'on' instead of off with 52. With html5 audio tag, it fixes a lot of streaming issues with constant bit-rate files (duration wouldn't update, and you'd not get an 'end' event when the song finished, things that worked fine for variable bitrate files), issues that were also in the webview as well. So those web apps that need html5 audio tag will work much better, and phonegap/cordova apps will
Re: No more back button (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes it does. Do you mean the backspace key, perhaps? Using that key for navigation was always a UI failure, but is now fixed.
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No, the UI failure was losing form data when going back. The right fix isn't to remove one of the ways of going back, but rather to stop losing form data when going back.
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They were both UI failures, removing the stupid shortcut fixes everything.
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It doesn't fix the form data loss problem, and it also removes the only non-shifted way of going back from a regular keyboard, which really isn't worth the loss.
Just fix the damn data loss issue, don't try to paper over it by making the browser harder to use.
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Somewhat off topic, but increasingly I've found the back button (and shift-clicking) doesn't work at all. To much Javascript and proprietary navigation prevents any browser's built-in navigation from doing its job.
Lots of UI failure all over the web, really. It's almost like we're heading back to the 90's and Flash sites all over again.