Security News > 2021 > February > Google Chrome's FPS meter shows frame rate again after complaints

Google has brought the FPS, or frame rate, reading back to the Google Chrome FPS meter after users were upset about its removal.

Google Chrome includes a tool called 'FPS Meter' that allowed users to see the frame rate of a web page they were visiting.

With Chrome 84, Google changed the FPS Meter by removing the frame rate value and introducing a new percentage value indicating the number of frames that the browser rendered on time.

Chrome users created a bug post stating that they preferred the old FPS readings and that it made no sense for an FPS meter not to show the actual frame rate of a page.

Requests to add the frame rate value back to the FPS Meter continued, including a request last month by a Google engineer on Chrome's GPU team.

This change is currently live in Google Chrome Canary 90, which is expected to go to Stable on April 13th. It is unknown if Google will uplift the change to the current Chrome Stable 88 or Chrome Beta 89 versions.

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