Security News > 2021 > July > Google Chrome now comes with up to 50x faster phishing detection

Google Chrome now comes with up to 50 times faster phishing detection starting with the latest released version 92, promoted to the stable channel on Tuesday.

The phishing site detection speed-up stems from improvements to the Chrome image processing tech used to compare the color profiles of visited websites with collections of signals associated with phishing landing pages.

"Starting with M92, Chrome now executes image-based phishing classification up to 50 times faster at the 50th percentile and 2.5 times faster at the 99th percentile," Chrome developer Olivier Li Shing Tat-Dupuis said.

Chrome is executing JavaScript code 23% faster with the inclusion of a new JavaScript compiler and the use of a new way to optimize the code's location in memory, as Google revealed.

Starting with Chrome 89, released in March, Chrome's browser process now requires up to 22% less memory on Windows after adding 8% memory savings in the renderer and roughly 3% in the GPU, while also improving the web browser's overall responsiveness by up to 9%. Last but not least, in Chrome 87, Google further optimized the browser's performance leading to 25% faster start-ups and 7% faster page loads.

Google Chrome also delivers up to 10% faster page loads starting with version 85 with the help of compiler optimization technique known as Profile Guided Optimization.

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