Google Chrome Browser Speeds Up by 30% - Fresh Sweet IT.Net

Google announced last Thursday that an update to the V8 JavaScript engine and a new version of the Webkit browser engine in Chrome will increase the loading speed of web pages with large amounts of JavaScript by 30%. These updates will be automatically downloaded to the existing versions of the Chrome browser.

The JavaScript virtual machine V8 was developed by a Danish team; it uses new tab windows, with tabs below the address bar. Each tab runs as a separate thread, so the entire browser won't crash if one tab fails; the address bar has an auto-complete function, similar to the auto-complete feature for search keywords in the Chinese version of Google; it provides a private browsing mode that does not retain browsing history; it integrates components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox.

The JavaScript engine is a new front in the browser wars. This year, all manufacturers have been promoting the performance of their own browsers.

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