Chrome 74 Stable is out with dark and lazy modes Loading

On April 23, 2019, Google released Google Chrome 74 on the stable web browser channel. This new version is available for all desktop and mobile platforms and introduces new features such as dark mode support.

You can update Google Chrome by clicking Menu> Help> About Google Chrome on the desktop. Android mobile users must wait for the app to be pushed on their devices or find a mirror and install the new version with the help of an APK file.

The Chrome Releases blog notes that Google has fixed 39 different security issues in the desktop version, some with a high severity rating, the second highest.

The blog article offers no information on other major or minor changes. although it is linked to the log file, it is huge, unsorted, and does not help much unless you want to spend an afternoon browsing it.

Dark mode

One of the new features of Google Chrome 74 is the support of dark mode. Google would not be Google's initially restrained obscure mode to a small number of users. According to a message posted on the official support forum of Google Chrome, Google is "offering this feature to a small number of Chrome M74 users," and that it will become "more widely available in the near future ".

It seems possible to apply the new mode using the -force-dark mode shortcut. Just add the setting to the Chrome shortcut to force the browser to turn on dark mode.

Windows users right-click the Chrome icon in the taskbar, go back to Chrome, select Properties, and add -force-dark-mode at the end of the Target field so that the target looks like this : "C: Program Files (x86) Google Chrome Application chrome.exe" -force-dark-mode.

Lazy loading

Google Chrome 74 comes with a new experimental indicator allowing lazy loading. Delayed loading gives priority to loading visible content relative to content not visible on a page.

Until now, the functionality had to be implemented individually on websites, but Google decided to integrate it into the browser in a native way. Google is aiming for a version of Chrome 75, but you can already test the feature as new experimental indicators are available to activate it.

1. Load chrome: // flags / # enable-lazy-image-loading in the browser's address bar and set it to On.
2. Load chrome: // flags / # enable-lazy-frame-loading and turn it on too.
3. Restart Google Chrome.

The first allows lazy loading of images in Chrome "defers the loading of images until the page is unrolled close to them", the second lazy loading of the content iframe "Differs the loading of some frames of & # 39; Cross-border until the page is scrolled by them. "

Now, it's your turn: Dark mode or lite mode, what do you prefer?

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