With experimental “Never slow mode,” Chrome tries to stop Web devs making it slow

With experimental “Never slow mode,” Chrome tries to stop Web devs making it slow

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/with-experimental-never-slow-mode-chrome-tries-to-stop-web-devs-making-it-slow/

Since Chrome's very first release, performance has been one of Google's top priorities. But Google is against a competing force: Web developers. The Web of today is a more-complex, bandwidth-intensive place than it was when Chrome was first released, which means that—although Internet connections and the browser itself are faster than they've ever been—slow pages remain an everyday occurrence.

Google engineers have been developing "Never Slow Mode" in a bid to counter this. Spotted at Chrome Story (via ZDNet), the new mode places tight limitations on Web content in an effort to make its performance more robust and predictable.