Google have released their latest version of Chrome browser 23, while we have been engrossed or obsessed with the US Elections. So, what exactly is new in this version of Google Chrome?
At the outset, as a normal user, we won’t find anything different. There isn’t any GUI changes which strikes the eye, unlike the wrench replacement in 22.
What Chrome 23 has instead are some changes -
When we take a look at how Chrome interacts with the PC, we find a major change. Instead of using the PC’s CPU to process and display web video, Chrome 23 will use the GPU-accelerated video encoding. Since the processor in a dedicated graphics card uses less power than a CPU, Chrome 23 and future releases should draw less power.
Google team boasts a 25% reduction in battery power consumption - which is quite significant. As an added bonus, I guess the graphics would be faster and more crisper - though no one has said so yet. BTW this feature is Windows-only and not available for Mac or Linux at present.
The major changes are in the way we interact with Chrome 23 and its future avatars. Poking around in the innards of Chrome browser was not easy in earlier versions. They made us jump through several screens before we could modify the settings.
The Chrome team has eased our clicking with Chrome 23 w.r.t. website settings. Now simply clicking on the page/lock icon before the website URL in the omnibox would drop down the website permission/connection details, which we can tweak as we like.
The last significant feature is the addition of “Do Not Track” ability to Chrome 23.
Which also makes Chrome the last major browser to add the Do Not Track feature. To make a point, even Comodo Dragon, a Chrome derivative has had this feature in its previous version(s).
What the ‘Do Not Track’ feature does is to simply ‘request’ the website we are visiting not to track where we have come from. As Google themselves say, it is left to the website to either comply with your request or disregard it.
The Do Not Track feature in Chrome 23 (or in any other browser including Comodo Dragon, except for IE 10) is 'off' by default. To turn it on go to Chrome’s ‘settings’ page, click ‘Advanced’ and check the box next to the new option ‘Send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic’ - the last option in Chrome 23 (in Comodo Dragon it is the 2nd option).
:-D
BTW there was a problem while I attempted an update from Google Chrome 22 to Google Chrome 23 with an 102 error message. More on that, possible causes and a workaround in another article.
At the outset, as a normal user, we won’t find anything different. There isn’t any GUI changes which strikes the eye, unlike the wrench replacement in 22.
What Chrome 23 has instead are some changes -
- in the way it interacts with the PC; and,
- in the way we interact with it to tweak some of its settings.
When we take a look at how Chrome interacts with the PC, we find a major change. Instead of using the PC’s CPU to process and display web video, Chrome 23 will use the GPU-accelerated video encoding. Since the processor in a dedicated graphics card uses less power than a CPU, Chrome 23 and future releases should draw less power.
Google team boasts a 25% reduction in battery power consumption - which is quite significant. As an added bonus, I guess the graphics would be faster and more crisper - though no one has said so yet. BTW this feature is Windows-only and not available for Mac or Linux at present.
The major changes are in the way we interact with Chrome 23 and its future avatars. Poking around in the innards of Chrome browser was not easy in earlier versions. They made us jump through several screens before we could modify the settings.
The Chrome team has eased our clicking with Chrome 23 w.r.t. website settings. Now simply clicking on the page/lock icon before the website URL in the omnibox would drop down the website permission/connection details, which we can tweak as we like.
The last significant feature is the addition of “Do Not Track” ability to Chrome 23.
Which also makes Chrome the last major browser to add the Do Not Track feature. To make a point, even Comodo Dragon, a Chrome derivative has had this feature in its previous version(s).
What the ‘Do Not Track’ feature does is to simply ‘request’ the website we are visiting not to track where we have come from. As Google themselves say, it is left to the website to either comply with your request or disregard it.
The Do Not Track feature in Chrome 23 (or in any other browser including Comodo Dragon, except for IE 10) is 'off' by default. To turn it on go to Chrome’s ‘settings’ page, click ‘Advanced’ and check the box next to the new option ‘Send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic’ - the last option in Chrome 23 (in Comodo Dragon it is the 2nd option).
:-D
BTW there was a problem while I attempted an update from Google Chrome 22 to Google Chrome 23 with an 102 error message. More on that, possible causes and a workaround in another article.
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