Google released the new version of Chrome for iOS. With this updates, it is bring a number of features that were before only available in the Android app to Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Just like the Android apps, for example, Chrome for iOS now supports Google’s Opera Turbo-like, data-compression proxy. By having your web browsing flow through Google servers, the company can compress your data to help you save up to 50 percent of bandwidth while you are browsing. Google’s will not, however, use the proxy for any connections to any sites that use secure connection (HTTPS).
Users will have to overtly enable this features, which makes sense, given that once enable, all your browsing will touch Google’s servers something not everybody will be comfortable with. Also new in this releases is built-in support for Google’s Translate, a feature both Android and desktop users have long been able to access. Whenever Chrome notices that you are surfing a site that isn’t in your native language, you can just tap the translation bar in Chrome and see the translated versions.
With this update, Google is also starting to push out an updates the new tab page for iOS that is meant to make “searching faster and easier.” As far as I can see, this means Google’s will show both a prominent Google’s Search bar on the new tab page, as well as a list of most-visited sites and recently closed tabs. Google says this part of the update will roll out slowly and will only be available on the iPhone at first. Google had previously announced some of the iOS updates, though apparently it took the company a bit longer than planned to release the updated versions.
