Google Chrome recently had a very important update from the company Google, version 68 being released by the Americans for users all over the world. Google Chrome brought a lot of changes for computers and phones with the updates released in July, and among them a new API called Page Lifecycle API can be found in version 68, which is thought to make the browser and computers much faster in daily use.
Google Chrome implemented this new API to reduce the amount of RAM memory consumed during use, the Google company suspending browser tabs in the background so that they no longer consume many resources. Google Chrome not only substantially reduces the amount of RAM memory consumed by web pages opened in tabs, but also the load they generate on the processor and affect the use of other applications on our computers.
Google Chrome: GREAT feature that makes it FASTER
PWAs can use the new page lifecycle APIs to store state and rehydrate like native apps. Exciting! https://t.co/VCl4iqTCKM
— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) July 26, 2018
Google Chrome has implemented this technology in a way similar to that in which applications left in the background on smartphones have limited resources in order not to affect the performance of smart phones. Those at Google know how important it is to efficiently manage resources on computers with little RAM memory and weak processors, so Google Chrome has become much faster and more useful for those who until now avoided it because it consumes a lot of resources.
"It allows browsers to more aggressively optimize system resources, ultimately benefiting all web users. Browsers today already take active measures to conserve resources for pages in background tabs, and many browsers would like to do a lot more of this to lessen their overall resource footprint. The problem is developers currently have no way to prepare for these types of system-initiated interventions or even know that they're happening. This means browsers need to be conservative or risk breaking web pages."
Google Chrome had announced this API by the Google company, it was tested for a long time by engineers to check if it really brings improvements for everyone, and in the end it was decided that it does. All you have to do to benefit from this change of Google Chrome is to install the version 68 available at the moment for everyone, and then your user experience should be much better.
