The world's most popular internet browser, Google Chrome, is getting multiple upgrades this week courtesy of the company's latest update. There is a slew of upgrades that users could experience in the new Google Chrome. This includes performance boost, mobile UI redesign, QR code and tab grouping, among others.
The search engine giant intends to introduce several features to Google Chrome. The company claims that users could now experience a 10% faster loading time of tabs. To make this possible, the Chrome team did a couple of things. These are Tab Throttling and Profile Guided Optimization.
As the name says, Tab Throttling enables Google Chrome to throttle the background tabs to reallocate resources to other active tabs. The Profile Guided Optimization is a new way where the code is compiled and allowed to run much faster for tasks that are commonly run by the user. These new features provide better performance while improving memory and battery efficiency.
Apart from those, Google Chrome now has the Tab Grouping feature. Announced last May, this feature is finally out and enables users to organize tabs better by collapsing similar ones into groups for faster and easier access. Users can identify tabs by task, topic and more. Interestingly, Google Chrome users could also assign colors to these tabs.
Other internet browsers like Firefox and Safari also enable some kind of tab groupings. However, they use separate browser extensions. Google also introduces a touchscreen interface that comes with larger tabs for those who use the tablet mode of laptops.
The feature would first roll out to Chromebooks, according to the company. This is another interesting feature that allows users to go from one tab to another when using their laptops. Google Chrome users could also print the page and even generate a QR code to download or scan.
Sharing a link has never been easier — or roar fun . Learn how to generate QR codes in the latest version of #Chrome, rolling out starting today: https://t.co/z2nGzILIBY pic.twitter.com/KaiUnSXeXa — Chrome (@googlechrome) August 25, 2020
The latest QR code feature would be available on Chrome desktop too and would be accessible through the address bar. Moreover, Google would also allow users to fill out and save PDF forms directly from Chrome. According to the search engine giant, the new features will slowly roll out over the next few weeks.
A few new productivity features, inspired by your feedback. ️ Space-saving, collapsible tab groups ️ Hover to preview tabs ️ PDF editor Learn more about what’s rolling out in the latest version of #Chrome starting today: https://t.co/z2nGzILIBY pic.twitter.com/2s7Cg7ma42 — Chrome (@googlechrome) August 25, 2020
The beta version of the Chrome browser would meanwhile introduce a feature that allows users to hover over a tab through the page's thumbnail preview. This is very convenient, especially to those who open tabs from the same domain as Google Docs.
