This tab upgrade should give Google Chrome a major speed boost TechRadar Skip to main content TechRadar is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. This tab upgrade should give Google Chrome a major speed boost By Luke Hughes published 16 September 2022 New 'freeze dried tabs' Google Chrome update should smooth out browsing experience on Android (Image credit: Shutterstock) Audio player loading… Loading times on Google Chrome will soon be much faster with the release of a new feature known as "Freeze Dried Tabs", which stores tabs as "interactive snapshots". In a post on the Chromium blog (opens in new tab), Google claims that the new feature provides a "20% perceptible speedup" in cold startups of the browser on Android devices. The new feature improves upon the previous method of displaying unloaded pages (via screenshots) by allowing users to click links and scroll across the entire length of pages before they are fully loaded. Google Chrome speed boost So-called "freeze drying" works by storing a page's visuals as vector graphics, rasterizing them, and displaying them "dynamically as the user scrolls" alongside captured hyperlinks. Large images are left out of these new tabs, and unused lettering in font files, which can be as large as several megabytes, are removed in order to reduce page loading times. In testing, Google found that Freeze Dried Tabs can "speed up the median time taken to draw all the content of the page to just 2.8s from launch".READ MORE> Check out our picks of the best anonymous browsers right now > Google Chrome not working? Microsoft Defender may be to blame > China is cracking down on mobile web browsers Google believes that the new technique used to load tabs will be especially useful for "transitional views" and for pages with particularly large pieces of content that would otherwise take a long time to load. It claims that the layout of Freeze Dried Tabs and fully loaded pages being the same means that Google Chrome will seem even faster from now on, due to the transition from snapshot to full page being a barely perceptible change. While Freeze Dried Tabs only appear in Google Chrome for Android at the moment, the company is "exploring additional places where this technology might be used".Here's our list of the best VPN services right now Luke HughesGraduate Writer Luke Hughes holds the role of Graduate Writer at TechRadar Pro, producing news, features and deals content across topics ranging from computing to cloud services, cybersecurity, data privacy and business software. See more Software news Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to theTechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Thank you for signing up to TechRadar. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1One of the world's most popular programming languages is coming to Linux2Apple October launches: the new devices we might see this month3Google's AI editing tricks are making Photoshop irrelevant for most people4You may not have to sell a body part to afford the Nvidia RTX 4090 after all5The iPhone 14 Pro is made of the wrong stuff; the Pixel 7 proves that to me1We finally know what 'Wi-Fi' stands for - and it's not what you think2Best laptops for designers and coders 3Miofive 4K Dash Cam review4Logitech's latest webcam and headset want to relieve your work day frustrations5Best offers on Laptops for Education – this festive season Technology Magazines (opens in new tab)● (opens in new tab)The best tech tutorials and in-depth reviewsFrom$12.99 (opens in new tab)View (opens in new tab)