Google yesterday announced that a new in-house compression algorithm, dubbed "Brotli," will soon be added to Chrome to speed up page loading times and reduce data consumption on mobile.
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Brotli is currently slated to show up in Chrome's "stable" build channel with version 49.
Google claimed Brotli outperforms gzip between 17% and 25%, and is especially efficient in dealing out fonts for web pages under the WOFF 2.0 (Web Open Font Format) optimization, an update on the standard submitted by Mozilla, Opera Software and Microsoft in 2010.
With Google releasing Chrome 48 on Wednesday, version 49 -- with Brotli -- should appear in six to eight weeks, or in the first half of March...Firefox 44, scheduled to ship next week, will support Brotli, Google said, and other browsers may join in.
Firefox stays winning. Yall have fun waiting until March.
