Saturday, January 23, 2016

Google Chrome and Firefox will be faster and consume less data – iprofesional.com

In the months ahead the users browser Chrome start will notice improved performance and a significant drop in consumption data while loading web pages.

This was announced the social network Google + one of its engineers, Ilya Grigorik .

According to the online newspaper The Verge, the browser Firefox be the next to enjoy this format.

According to Google engineer explained, this thanks to a new algorithm of understanding called Brotli will be achieved.

This type of algorithms already existed in the web browser, but its use will be especially helpful when using Chrome from “smartphones” and tablets, because, in addition to reducing data consumption, will do the same with the device’s battery and achieve make browsing more dynamic, the increased speed of loading pages.

The operating system Chrome understanding is called Zopfli and the data is able to reduce around 45 % compared to a browser that has enabled this feature.

To set it up, you must access the configuration section of the application itself and click on the “data saver” option.

If the reduction is accomplished with Zopfli is important, with Brotli be noticed even more .

As explained in his note Grigorik consumption data loading web pages now will fall between 17% and 25% less with respect to the use of the above algorithm.

So, you could say that Brotli reduce data consumption by 70 %, when compared with a browser that is not enabled for data saver function.

Chrome finished upgrade to version 48 solving several performance issues and security flaws .

So, among other things, they have closed the door to URL spoofing and crawls through HSTS and CSP , which were due to various security holes.

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