Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads

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Google on Tuesday released Chrome version 27 for Windows, Mac, and Linux (http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/05/21/chrome-27-arrives-with-5-faster-page-loads-file-system-api-to-save-and-synchronize-data-on-drive-and-more/). The new version (http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/05/every-second-counts.html) features a big boost to page loads (now 5 percent faster (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JQZXrONw1RrjrdD_Z9jq1ZKsHguh8UVGHY_MZgE63II/preview) on average) as well as significant updates for developers. The speed improvement is thanks to the introduction of 'smarter behind-the-scenes resource scheduling,' according to Google. Starting with this release, the scheduler more aggressively uses an idle connection and demotes the priority of preloaded resources so that they don’t interfere with critical assets

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/0224203/google-chrome-27-is-out-5-faster-page-loads