14 DAY TRIAL // As Google promised when releasing Chrome 45 to download two days ago, the company followed suit with a more in-depth blog post on why the 45.x release is a milestone in its history.
Almost perfectly timed with its logo change, Google Chrome 45 is a browser that contains loads of user-friendly features, aimed at improving the browser's overall speed and performance.
If you've been using or following the Beta, Dev and Chromium releases, much of the announced changes are old news, but good news nevertheless.
Chrome 45 uses 10% less RAM
A big problem reported by users in recent Chrome releases was the browser's hunger for PC memory. According to the Chrome team, this has now been fixed by tweaking an older feature and adding a new one.
First off, Google's devs first changed how the "continue where you left off" option worked, and instead of loading all the previous tabs when the browser was restarted, it now loads them using a queue. First it loads the most recently used tab, then the one viewed before that, and so on, loading the least viewed tab at the end.
If by any chance the user's PC or laptop is busy doing something else, to save memory, this task can be shut down at any point, and non-focused Chrome tabs loaded only when the user clicks on them.
Secondly, the developers also introduced a new feature that was added in August to the V8 JavaScript engine, one that allowed them to create a method of cleaning unused memory that was previously being hogged by Chrome tabs. As the Chrome team claims, this saved 10% of RAM on average.
Batteries last 15% longer
Laptop and notebook users will surely want to update to Chrome 45, the company adding a feature of which we first described in June, one which pauses unimportant Flash content that is displayed on the sides of your page.
This means auto-playing videos and Flash ads won't start guzzling up your battery when you open a new tab, and you can enjoy your "lappy" for longer periods of time without dragging your charger with you everywhere. As the Chrome team reports, this resulted in 15% more battery life for tested devices.
As for future releases, we are still waiting for the on-demand tab discarding feature that was added to Chromium a few releases back. In the meantime, you can download Google Chrome for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows right now from Softpedia.
