Google Chrome 64 for Android gets Parallel Download Feature

Google Chrome for Android is on a roll as the company seems to be improving it by adding features that are practical. Last week Chrome 63 bought changes to the Minimal web apps U.I, new flags menu, changes to Chrome Home U.I and more. Recently it is known that Google Chrome will soon get HDR video playback as well. Today another feature; the Parallel Download is being added to Chrome to accelerate download speeds.

This feature will theoretically increase the download speed in Chrome by creating parallel jobs to handle the download. According to Commit, the parallel download feature will be activated when a download is active for longer than 2 seconds and creates three jobs to speed up the download process. This feature is currently live in Chrome 64 for everyone who is running Chrome Dev, Chrome Canary, or a nightly Chromium build will have this feature, while Chrome beta and stable version to follow soon.

If you would like to test this feature on Chrome Beta, you can simply copy past the flag (chrome://flags#chrome-parallel-download) in your address bar and enable it. This flag was actually added three months ago but was in testing phase all along. Google now thinks that it is ready for a wide roll out to everyone.

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