Introducing Shared Memory Versioning to improve slow interactions

On the Chrome team, we believe it’s not sufficient to be fast most of the time, we have to be fast all of the time. Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how we contributed to Core Web Vitals by surveying the field data of Chrome responding ... more

Speedometer 3: Building a benchmark that represents the web

Today’s The Fast and the Curious post covers the release of Speedometer 3.0 an upgraded browser benchmarking tool to optimize the performance of Web applications. In collaboration with major web browser engines, Blink/V8, Gecko/SpiderMonkey, and WebKit/JavaScriptCore, ... more

How Core Web Vitals saved users 10,000 years of waiting for web pages to load

Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how Core Web Vitals saved Chrome users more than 10,000 Years of waiting for web pages to load in 2023 (across Chrome desktop and Android) by quantifying the experience of sites and identifying opportunities ... more

How Chrome achieved high scores on three browser benchmarks

Since the beginning of Chrome, benchmarks have been a key way by which we drive performance optimizations that benefit users. The most relevant web benchmarks today are Speedometer, MotionMark, and Jetstream. Over the last year Chrome has invested in ... more

More ways we’re making Chrome faster

From the beginning of Chrome, one of our 4 founding principles has been speed, and it remains a core principle that guides our work. Today’s The Fast and the Curious post shares how recent technical improvements to Chrome have helped us reach a new performance ... more

How WebAssembly is accelerating new web functionality

WebAssembly is fundamentally changing how new developer capabilities and functionality can be created on the web. In order to maintain browser interoperability, new web capabilities need to go through a rigorous standardization process and cross browser ... more

Do more with Chrome on a single charge on MacBooks

From the beginning, we designed Chrome to be efficient. Being efficient is not just about loading pages as fast as possible, it’s also about doing it with the least amount of resources possible. Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how we improved ... more

Speeding up Chrome on Android Startup with Freeze Dried Tabs

We believe that "good enough" is never enough when it comes to pushing the performance of Chrome. Today’s The Fast and the Curious post explores how we sped up the startup times of Chrome on Android by more than 20% by providing an interactive ... more

Chrome 106 Beta: New CSS Features, WebCodecs and WebXR Improvements, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, ChromeOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome 104 Beta: New Media Query Syntax, Region Capture, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

How Chrome Became Highest Scoring Browser on Speedometer, Ever

Last week we released a blog post about our improvements in Chrome speed over the past year culminating with the M99 release of Chrome. We wanted to follow up by going in depth on how we achieved this milestone in browser performance. Since the launch ... more

A new speed milestone for Chrome

Everyday, billions of people around the world turn to Chrome to get things done quickly on their devices, whether shopping for a new pair of headphones or pulling together a sales report for work. Nothing is more frustrating than having a slow experience ... more

Chrome 100 Beta: Reduced User-Agent Strings, Multi-Screen Window Placement, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome 98 Beta: Color Gradient Vector Fonts, Region Capture Origin Trial, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome on Windows performance improvements and the journey of Native Window Occlusion

Whether you prefer organizing your browser with tab groups, naming your windows, tab search, or another method, you have lots of features that help you get to the tabs you want. In this The Fast and the Curious post, we describe how we use what windows ... more

Chrome 97: WebTransport, New Array Static Methods and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links. Chrome 97 is beta as of November ... more

Chrome Dev Summit 2021: Moving toward a more powerful and private web

By Paul Kinlan, Lead for Chrome Developer Relations The big day is finally here. Today, at Chrome Dev Summit 2021 we shared some of the highlights of what we've been working on — the latest product updates, vision for the web's future and examples of ... more

Chrome 96 Beta: Conditional Focus, Priority Hints, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

RenderingNG: an architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

Our continual investments in the performance of Chrome have led to significant improvements in battery life, memory, and the speed of the web. This post in The Fast & the Curious series highlights the rendering journey of Chrome over the past eight ... more

Chrome 95 Beta: Secure Payment Confirmation, WebAssembly Exception Handling and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome 94 Beta: WebCodecs, WebGPU, Scheduling, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome 93: Multi-Screen Window Placement, PWAs as URL Handlers, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Android WebView, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list ... more

Chrome 92: Web Apps as File Handlers, New JavaScript Features, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome is up to 23% faster in M91 and saves over 17 years of CPU time daily

Since the launch of Chrome in 2008, speed has been one of the 4 core principles that shape the work we do to deliver a highly performant browser. The V8 JavaScript compiler is a critical part of delivering maximum speed for the JavaScript that’s shipped ... more

Chrome 91: Handwriting Recognition, WebXR Plane Detection and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome 90 Beta: AV1 Encoder for WebRTC, New Origin Trials, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Chrome Dev Summit 2020: Building an open web for our users and developers

We all benefit from an open web that is secure, powerful, and fast. Over the past year, we’ve focused our efforts on strengthening the web in three areas: Rethinking how we can deliver a safe and secure web Adding the capabilities you need to build powerful, ... more

Continuing our journey to bring instant experiences to the whole web

Speed has always been a core tenet of Chrome. We care about speed, not only because it helps our users get things done quicker, but because it also contributes to making the web ecosystem more diverse by lowering the friction of discovering and engaging ... more

Chrome 88: Digital Goods, Lighting Estimation in Augmented Reality, and More

Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Learn more about the features listed here through the provided links or from the list on ChromeStatus.com. ... more

Tab throttling and more performance improvements in Chrome M87

Even if you have a lot of tabs open, you likely only focus on a small set of them to get a task done. Starting in this release, Chrome is actively managing your computer’s resources to make the tabs you care about fast—while allowing you to keep hundreds ... more