Chrome Browser on Android reduced mobile data usage up to 70%
Back in the good ‘ol Internet days of dial-up, a common trick was to turn off graphics in the browser by default and only once you arrived at the desired page would you manually press a button and show all the graphics. (Anyone remember Netscape?)
Well, what was new in the ’90s is once again new in the ’10s. The latest Chrome browser on Android essentially lets you do the same thing. You’ll not only save on your data plan by not downloading images you don’t really care to see anyway, but in addition you’ll get lightning fast downloads of websites since you’re only pulling down the text.
All we need now is the Macarena playing in the background to give us that complete 90s experience.
Straight from Google’s blog:
Now, we’re updating this mode to save even more data – up to 70 percent! – by removing most images when loading a page on a slow connection. After the page has loaded, you can tap to show all images or just the individual ones you want, making the web faster and cheaper to access on slow connections.
Source: Google Chrome Blog: A new way to save data with Chrome on Android