WebP Could Help Chrome Grow Even Faster

[Ink]

Up until recently, Google’s WebP format featured lossy image compression. But the development team managed to achieve lossless compression and support for transparency. Placing this detail into the browser speed equation, Chrome should become even faster, as the same image quality can be delivered with less impact on the bandwidth (check out the side by side comparison).

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[AyeAyeCaptain]

Would Comodo Dragon be able to make use of this? I assume not because they both get it off the Chromium opensource and do there own tweaks, but then again CD says it's taken all the privacy stuff that Google has placed so this confuses me?

 

[Hungry Man]

Any browser that renders WebP can take advantage of this, currently I believe only Chrome and Opera do.

I don't believe Chomium makes use of WebP but it's possible - if it does anything like Comodo Dragon will work with it.

 

[House_maniac]

thanks for the share this sounds awesome for people on slow network