Chrome on Android will now save up to 70 percent of data

How does it do this?

When you turn Data Saver on in the Settings menu and the browser detects a slow connection, it will skip images when requesting Web pages so that they load quickly and use less of your data allowance.

Mobile data is probably more of a commodity than anything else in our tech lives. This will potentially speed up your After the page has been loaded, the user will be presented with the option to manually download all or several images.

For a lot of web content, loading the images isn’t always necessary – as with news articles, for instance.

The two announcements contrast the two companies’ approaches nicely: Google tries to make web access easier, Facebook tries to make access to a groomed subset of the web easier. This is practical for users in emerging markets but also those in developed regions.

In fact when the mobile internet started gaining some traction and the data charges were sky high, people switched over to browsers like Opera which helped them save bandwidth and spend less money on the data bills. And Opera’s own Android data-saving proxy, Opera Max, was updated this summer to help compress YouTube and Netflix videos, as well.

“Now, we’re updating this mode to save even more date – up to 70%! – by removing most images when loading a page on a slow connection”.

Other countries will get the new compression feature in the future, says Google, but it didn’t commit to a time frame beyond the “coming months”. No mention of iOS devices either, but we are hopeful the enhanced feature will eventually pop up on the iOS version of the popular browser as well.