Google Chrome 103 launches with new prerendering technology - Ghacks

Google Chrome 103 is now available. The new version of Google's Chrome web browser introduces support for a new prerendering technology, which Google believes will improve Chrome's page loading speed significantly.

Chrome 103 is already available for desktop systems. The browser updates automatically on most systems, but you may speed up the installation of the new update by loading chrome://settings/help in the browser's address bar or by selecting Menu > Help > About Google Chrome.

Chrome displays the installed version on the page. It checks for updates and will download and install any update that it finds.

Google fixed 14 security issues in Chrome 103, including one with a critical severity rating.

Chrome 103: Same-Origin Prerendering

The big new feature of Chrome 103 is that Google is prototyping prerendering again in Chrome to speed up the loading of web pages.

Google introduced a change in Chrome's prerendering behavior some time ago. Called NoState Prefetch, it was designed to be a replacement for the classic prerendering process of the browser. One of the core differences between the two prerendering technologies is that NoState Prefetch is not executing JavaScript or rendering parts of the page in advance.

Google highlighted back then that the new prefetching technology uses less memory than the old because of that. In a blog post on its Developer blog, Chrome Developers contributor Katie Hempenius pointed out that NoState Prefetch is using about 45 MiB of...



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