iOS Chrome browser is now faster and more stable

If your iOS Chrome browser has been crashing a lot lately, stay calm – Google is releasing an update to Chrome that reduces crashing by 70%.

The open-source browser project that Google bases Chrome off of, Chrome48 is a much more stable and speedier app than the previous version. With the release of iOS 8 in September 2014, Apple introduced an updated engine that allowed Google to tinker with the Chrome app to make some much-needed improvements.

As a non-default browser in iOS, Chrome has to provide a stable and well-performing app in order to attract people away from the Safari app which is built-in and recently had to fix its own crashing issues.

Chrome has continued to beat Safari as the favourite mobile and tablet browser worldwide, and increased stability and speed could help Chrome hold onto that title.

The Chrome update is supposedly going to effectively localize crashes. When something goes wrong on a webpage or your phone reaches its memory cap, only that process which has a problem will crash – instead of the entire app!

The update also improves its handling of HTML and JavaScript, which are essential programming languages on the web. You’ll be able to notice this improvement with faster and smoother scrolling, as well as tabs reloading less often when you switch between them.

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