Google Chrome Update Has Only A Few Kilobytes
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Concerning browser security updates, Google Chrome silent update could be the safest, as compared to Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera and Apple technology, because it does not require user interaction and cannot be disabled from within the graphical user interface. Google Chrome silent update is automatically set to run every five hours, even if the browser is not running. Now, Google has made notable improvement to the silent update mechanism through the addition of a new differential compression algorithm called Courgette, which determines the process to be faster and to consume less bandwidth. For example, in case of the latest Google chrome developer channel, the size of the pushed data through Courgette is very low (just 78,848 bytes).
