Aug 26, 2020 14:05:00

Google Chrome 85 official release, page loading speed further improved

The latest stable version of the web browser ' Google Chrome ', version 85.0.4183.83, has been released. In addition to improving the page display speed, a convenient function such as opening in a separate tab when a file is dragged and dropped on the page has been added.

Chromium Blog: Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-with-profile.html

Chrome Platform Status
https://www.chromestatus.com/features#milestone%3D85

New in Chrome 85: CSS Properties, content-visibility, getInstalledRelatedApps(), and lots more!-- YouTube


◆Improved page loading speed
By using a method called ' profile-based optimization ', page load is improved by up to 10%. Especially when the CPU resources are insufficient, it will be more effective.

◆Improved behavior when dropping a file on a page
Previously, dragging and dropping a file onto a page would open the file on that page, losing what you were working on the page. To avoid these problems, Chrome 85 has been changed to open the file in a new tab.

◆ Shortcut menu is added to the icon on Windows
It was announced that a shortcut menu could be displayed by right-clicking when adding a website to the taskbar in

Chrome 84 , but this is incorrect, and it was implemented in Chrome 85 to be exact.

◆Operation of content outside the screen can be controlled by CSS 'content-visibility'
By setting 'content-visibility: auto' in the CSS property, it is now possible to tell the browser that the content does not need to be drawn until it scrolls into the screen. According to the demo of

web.dev , this change made the page load speed 7 times faster.

◆ Fallback to CSS variables can be defined in CSS
Chrome 78 added '

Ability to set fallback if the value of CSS variable is invalid ', but this function requires JavaScript to be used, and CSS settings are distributed to various places. There was a problem that it would end up. From Chrome 85, you can also set fallback in CSS.

◆It can detect that a specific Windows application is installed
By including information about your website when building a Windows app with UWP , you will be able to tell when you visit that website that you already own the app and encourage the use of the app Developers can now optimize the display of pages by sending out different messages.

◆ JavaScript update
' Promise.any ' and ' replaceAll ' have been added.

◆ Android version is moved to 64bit
According to xdadevelopers , since Chrome 85, 64-bit versions of Chrome are installed on Android devices equipped with 64-bit processors.

Chrome 85 also contains 20 security bug fixes .