Google recently launched Chrome 89 with revamped profiles, a reading list and more for the desktop. The search giant is also showing love for Chrome on Android, with a new feature called “frozen tabs” that are supposed to make the browser even faster.
On Thursday, Google posted a blog detailing how memory management is advancing and improving performance on Chrome 89, with one of the improvements being freeze-dried guides. With the feature enabled, Google claims that Chrome on Android starts 13% faster.
“Chrome now saves a lightweight version of its tabs that are similar in size to a screenshot, but support scrolling, zooming and tapping links,” said Google. “We use these freeze-dried tabs at startup, while the actual tab is loaded in the background, taking you to your pages faster.”
In addition, Google said that with Chrome 89, it was able to reduce the number of crashes on Android due to resource depletion, a 5% improvement in memory usage, 7.5% faster boot times and loads up to 2% faster.
Google has also confirmed which devices are receiving the 64-bit version of Chrome.
“For those of you who have chosen the latest Android devices (Android Q + and 8 GB + RAM), we have rebuilt Chrome as a 64-bit binary, offering a more stable Chrome that is up to 8.5% faster to load pages and 28% smoother when it comes to scrolling and input latency, ”said Google.
Google also said that Chrome on Android now uses PartitionAlloc everywhere, the search giant’s advanced memory allocator, which is optimized for low allocation latency, space efficiency and security. The updated browser is also smarter to use (and discard) memory, recovering up to 100 MiB per tab when discarding memory that the foreground tab is not actively using.
“Our teams are always working hard to provide you with the fastest and most powerful browser on each of your devices,” said Google.