This tab upgrade should give Google Chrome a major speed boost

Loading times on Google Chrome will soon be much faster with the release of a new feature known as “Freeze Dried Tabs”, which stores tabs as “interactive snapshots”. In a post on the Chromium blog (opens in new tab), Google claims that the new feature provides a “20% perceptible speedup” in cold startups of the browser on Android devices. The new feature improves upon the previous method of displaying unloaded pages (via screenshots) by allowing users to click links and scroll across the entire length of pages before they are fully loaded.

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