Google announces Chrome performance improvements

Three billion devices run Chrome, and the browser that quietly underpins much of modern digital life has grown a little faster. Google's latest round of performance improvements — touching page load times, animation rendering, and multi-tab responsiveness — arrives not in a vacuum, but in a browser market that has quietly grown competitive again. What looks like routine maintenance is, in the longer view, a signal that the tools we use to navigate the web are being contested once more, and that contest tends to benefit everyone.