Chrome for Android skips images on sites for up to 70% data savings

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by Sindy Cator on December 1, 2015 at 6:41 am

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chrome, Data saver, Google

Google is updating the Data Saver feature in its Chrome browser for Android to let you save up to 70 percent of your mobile data. When you turn Data Saver on in the Settings menu and the browser detects a slow connection, it will skip images when requesting Web pages so that they load quickly and use less of your data allowance. Chrome for Android now skips loading images to save you up to 70 percent of data Once a page has loaded, you can tap its placeholders to load individual images, or choose to load them all. The new feature…