Save Internet traffic, with a new extension of Google Chrome for
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
At a time when finding a nearby stable Wi-Fi signal is not always feasible, it is best way out is to use a wireless access point of a smartphone. Mobile browsers is not the first year are able to compress traffic to save often not cheap tariff megabytes Internet. A new extension for Chrome that will teach and desktop application.
To save traffic Data Saver uses special company proxy server through which all traffic passes, compresses it, and gives already optimized version of the web page. As is the case with any other extension, Data Saver icon after installation can be found on the Chrome toolbar. Clicking on it will show how many megabytes of Internet you have already saved, and will disable this feature. In practice, the expansion efficiency reached 60%.
To fully use this new functionality, you will need the presence of Chrome 41 or later. Among the drawbacks is worth noting that the extension had not yet work with the HTTPS protocol and in incognito mode. By the way, yet Data Saver is on the stage of beta testing, and later, probably, is integrated into the standard build of the popular browser.