Category: Web

Through the Alliance for Open Media, big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix etc have finished the first version of the new video compression technology called AV1. It can match the quality of can match the quality of the prevailing video compression technologies, HEVC and VP9, using 30 percent to 40 percent less network capacity. So video… Continue reading Video streaming is going to be a lot faster, thanks to AV1 compression technology

HTTP/2, the next major change to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, has been formally approved by the IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group). HTTP/2 is based on Google’s SPDY/2 protocol which should enable faster page loads in the future web based on the HTTP/2 standard. See the following article from Neowin for details: HTTP/2 standard has been finalized,… Continue reading Speedier web is coming with HTTP/2 standard

                      Do you use Chrome as your browser and sometimes found it’s taking up lots of memory. This can happen when you have many tabs opened because by default Chrome uses a separate process for each tab. Use the following trick from gHacks Tech News… Continue reading Save memory in Chrome by using one process per site

64 bit Google Chrome browser is in the pipeline and coming later this year! Google Chrome Goes 64-Bit, Promises Better Stability, Security And Performance | TechCrunch.

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Hardware support for Google’s VP9 video codec is coming, will this made 4K video streaming go mainstream? Google’s VP9 Video Codec Gets Backing from ARM, Nvidia, Sony And Others

Here is how to add the new audio-video standard WebM for Internet Explorer as an alternative to the more popular H.264 format Adding WebM support to Microsoft Internet Explorer | Ghacks.