Google Chrome to bring server side compression for faster browsing?


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Opera Mini’s been doing it for a long time, with Amazon Silk and the Nokia S40 Xpress Browser chiming in with similar functionality over the past years, all aimed at reducing the amount of mobile data consumed while browsing on the go. It may seem like a not-so-great idea considering the ubiquity of mobile data today, but the problem is still real, with carriers getting choked on one end, and people unwillingly spending their valuable data on the other end. Like other, Google too is now looking at fixing this using server side optimization of websites using a proxy server. This was spotted by Google Plus user Francois.

So, quoting the findings straight away, this is what indicated the new server side optimization for Chrome –

If so, you won’t be surprised to learn that Google “Chrome For Android” Team is experimenting on reducing data consumption by loading optimized web pages via Google SPDY proxy servers.

This feature still in development is available behind a switch that you can enable by running:
adb shell ‘echo “chrome –enable-spdy-proxy-auth” > /data/local/tmp/content-shell-command-line’

There you go. Google is using a proxy server to enable optimization of the forwarded websites. We would say it is about time that they did it, but we do hope Google’s implementation is smarter and less aggressive unlike the competition. This will definitely help Android devices consumer lesser data. Lets see where this leads then, might be just a lab test too!

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