Chrome for Android has learned to save bandwidth

Not all Android users know that Google gives everyone the opportunity to participate in the beta testing all new buns, which are laid in the next version of mobile Chrome.

The Google Play Store has an application called Chrome Beta. By name is easy to guess that this is an open test version of the next update, which users of standard mobile Chrome is obtained only after some time. In the run-in and it optimizes all the innovations, but what volunteers can help testers developer sending fidbek with all found errors and defects in the beta cell browser.

It is not necessary to fear that Chrome Beta is a some kind of a wild experiment that permanently buggy and at the first tapas hangs the entire system. The main functions of long-tweaked, and tested a variety of additional utility.

For example, the last major update Chrome Beta added to the browser such a cool thing as traffic compression. New driven around for almost a week and already gives good results.

Enable it is very simple: go to Settings -> Bandwidth -> Reduce Data Usage.

Poke the top of the "On" interface, and then go to test the function. Of the estimated 4.4 megabytes of mobile data traffic in the form of mixed content (text + images) Chrome Beta managed to 3.1 megabytes. The average compression is kept in the range from 30% to 35%, sometimes reaching 37%.

Opera fans will say "phi", because Opera mini provides almost 90% of compression, but are not quite right. The fact that Opera mini - it's actually not a browser, and a thin client, which gives access to the content generated on Opera servers. In other words, when the user walks on the Web through Opera mini, the data on this page is first poured and processed Opera, and only then are given in Opera mini client. It is much more correct to compare the compression Chrome Beta traffic with Opera Turbo function. According to the statistics function of Turbo provides about 60% compression, but here you need to consider one important detail: mobile Opera frequently loads the full versions of websites instead of mobile, rather than Chrome, or where such pages huddle it's better.

In general, traffic compression - definitely a cool thing for all those who do not have unlimited mobile Internet package or options. In addition, the compression helps a little and weak / unstable signal network (such as 3G, and Wi-Fi).