O Google Want to make browsing on Chrome faster. To achieve this, big tech will change the chrome cache to improve browser performance. According to the Bleeping Computer portal, the change involves affecting the behavior of the BFCache – Back/Forward Cache, that is, what comes into action when the user clicks to change pages.
BFCache has the function of storing “an image” of visited web pages to display them more quickly when the user returns to them. When a developer creates a website, they can optionally include the “Cache-control: no-store” line of code, causing the browser to not cache (memory) the response sent by a server – which is useful in terms of security , to avoid retaining sensitive information, for example.
However, this influences BFCache, making accessing a previously visited page longer because BFCache does not have it in memory. Google’s proposed change is to allow web pages to be stored in the cache, even if a developer has specified otherwise.
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With this, BFCache would be active despite the presence of the aforementioned line of code and the loading of previous and following pages would be accelerated. The developers specify that this will not be at the expense of security. To test the impact of the change, it will first be rolled out to a test channel before being rolled out to all Chrome users.
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The purpose of the change would be to avoid restoring pages with sensitive data to which the user should no longer have access.
According to the Chrome developers page, the feature has not yet been officially launched by Google and is still in the testing phase.
