{"id":85479,"date":"2018-07-15T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=85479\/"},"modified":"2018-07-15T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T13:15:15","slug":"google-chrome-nasty-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/technology-en\/google-chrome-nasty-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome has a nasty surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

With\u00a0over 60%<\/span><\/a>\u00a0market share, Chrome is the undisputed king of web browsers. A key factor behind this is\u00a0Google<\/a>\u00a0GOOGL +0.22%<\/a><\/span>\u2019s commitment to keeping it seamlessly updated with essential fixes and optimisations, but now the company has admitted Chrome\u2019s latest upgrade comes with an unavoidable nasty surprise\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018Great Secret Features\u2019 and \u2018Nasty Surprises\u2019 are my regular columns investigating the best features \/ biggest problems hidden behind the headlines.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Chrome’s new user interface is coming soon, but another problem has arrived firstGOOGLE<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a\u00a0blog post<\/span><\/a>, Google has admitted the newest version of Chrome rolling out to customers worldwide is going to consume up to 13% more of your system memory. For a browser whose biggest failing has long been its excessive memory consumption (1<\/span><\/a>,2<\/span><\/a>,3<\/span><\/a>,4<\/span><\/a>,5<\/span><\/a>), this is the last thing users will want. Especially those with older systems and less RAM.<\/p>\n

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Google also confirmed this is a cross-platform change and will apply to Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. The last of these could be particularly impacted as Chrome OS systems often ship with only 4-8GB of RAM.<\/p>\n

So why has Google done this?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all in the name of security. The new, more bloated Chrome contains a feature called \u2018Site Isolation\u2019 which combats the\u00a0serious Spectre vulnerability<\/a>\u00a0which exposes computers at a chip level.<\/p>\n

\u201cSite Isolation is a significant change to Chrome\u2019s behavior under the hood, but it generally shouldn\u2019t cause visible changes for most users or web developers (beyond a few known issues),\u201d explains Chrome software engineer Charlie Reis in the blog point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt simply offers more protection between websites behind the scenes. Site Isolation does cause Chrome to create more renderer processes, which comes with performance tradeoffs: on the plus side, each renderer process is smaller, shorter-lived, and has less contention internally, but there is about a 10-13% total memory overhead in real workloads due to the larger number of processes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Site Isolation splits a single across multiple renderer processes to boost securityGOOGLE<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Reis says his team \u201ccontinues to work hard to optimize this behavior to keep Chrome both fast and secure\u201d but for now everyone is just going to have to bite the bullet.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, if you are concerned about system performance, there\u2019s nothing you can do to opt out. Reis says Site Isolation will be enabled for 99% of users across all platforms with just 1% held back as a test group.<\/p>\n

What about mobile platforms? In a\u00a0tweet<\/span><\/a>, Google Chrome security specialist Justin Schuh says a version is being made for Android but has yet to be shipped due to \u201cresource consumption issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Google is right to do everything in its power to mitigate Spectre. It\u2019s just unfortunate that the method chosen will impact the computers of users who are least likely to afford an upgrade…<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0 forbes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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