IT House news on February 24, Google announced that it will soon cancel a feature of the Chrome browser for Android, which is designed to help users reduce the use of mobile data.
According to 9to5Google, this feature is Chrome's "Lite Mode" and will disappear with the release of the Chrome M100 version at the end of March. Originally known as "Data Saver," The "stream-saving mode" was first introduced by Google on Android in 2014.
According to Google, "In Lite mode, Chrome loads web pages faster and saves up to 60 percent of your traffic." When Lite mode is turned on, Chrome uses Google servers to make pages load faster. Compact mode rewrites web pages that load very slowly so that only the necessary content is loaded. ”
IT House learned that in 2015, Google added a complete blocking of images to Chrome's lite mode to further reduce traffic usage.
But now Google no longer sees the need to keep that model, users are getting more and more mobile traffic, and the company claims that Chrome browser continues to reduce data usage through default settings.
The company wrote on a help page this week: "In recent years, we have seen a decline in the cost of mobile data in many countries, and we have made many improvements to Chrome Browser to further reduce data usage and improve page loading, and while thin mode is about to disappear, we remain committed to ensuring that Chrome Browser is able to provide a fast web page loading experience on mobile." ”
The Chrome browser M100 for Android will be released to a stable channel on March 29, and until then, Lite mode will still be available.