After months-if not years-of bellyaching over slow speeds and shaky stability, Google finally announced an array of improvements to Chrome that could improve the lives of millions.<br />The company says the browser will now offer users "a faster and more efficient web."<br />Well, Google certainly couldn't make it slower or less efficient.<br />The latest version of Chrome includes some under-the-hood upgrades that will cut down on RAM usage and improve battery life.<br />Google explains the nuts-and-bolts in a blog post:<br /><br />Chrome can now detect when a webpage isn't busy with some other task, and use the free time to aggressively clean up old, unused memory.<br />In practice we found that this reduced website memory usage by 10% on average, but the effect is even more dramatic on complex web apps.
