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Browser wars: Google Chrome just received a major performance boost

November 1, 2021

Via: TechRadar

Searching the web on Google Chrome is now faster than ever thanks to a new update to the omnibox in Google’s browser.

In a new post in the search giant’s The Fast and the Curious series by Chrome product manager Yana Yushkina, the company explained that searching in Chrome is now even faster since search results are prefeteched if a suggest query is very likely to be selected.

For those unfamiliar, Chrome’s omnibox suggests potential queries when the “Autocomplete searches and URLs” feature is turned on in the browser’s settings. This makes searching for information faster and easier as users don’t have to type in an entire search query to find what they’re looking for.

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