Google Chrome is to become faster and more efficient on macOS, following criticisms — and following similar improvements already made on other platforms.
Google’s Chrome browser is known for being bloated and slow on the Mac — and was recently demonstrated to be many times less efficient than Safari. Now Google is claiming to be undertaking “ongoing efforts” to improve the browser.
“Chrome is also shrinking its memory footprint in background tabs on macOS, something we’ve been doing on other platforms for a while,” writes Mark Chang, Chrome Product Manager, in a blog post. “We’re seeing up to 8% memory savings, which is more than [one gigabyte] in some cases!”
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