Google Chrome is the browser of choice for millions of users, since offers a comprehensive solution which guarantees optimal security, fast speed and many customization options. The company periodically provides patches and updates that further improve our work.
One of the disadvantages from the web browser is the compatibility with PDF files and is that even though Chrome includes an implementation from the built-in PDF document viewer interface, any user who actively uses such documents while browsing online, probably You may have noticed that there are various problems.
Y Google is aware of the situation and you have already started experimenting with a better PDF reader to give us better support for this format.
The engineers company software are experimenting with a completely different user interface of the PDF Viewer feature in Google Chrome.
Thus, Google will further develop the concepts established with the premiere of the option to save PDF forms and the function of opening these types of files on two pages.
Besides that The interface is notable for moving all the settings to the top panel.
Previously only the file name, page information, rotate, print and save buttons were displayed in the top panel, but now the side panel content, which included controls for scaling and positioning the document by page size, was also shown has been transferred to you.
The ability to save edited PDF forms, as well as a way of two-page display, can be enabled from the browser options, for this it is enough to go to:
"Chrome: // flags # / pdf-viewer-update"
"Chrome: // flags / # pdf-form-save"
"Chrome: // flags / # pdf-two-up-view"
Another change in Chrome that also stands out is that we can also observe the inclusion of the default support for the AVIF image format (AV1 image format), which uses intra-frame compression technologies of the format AV1 video encoding.
The container for distributing compressed data in AVIF is completely similar to HEIF.
AVIF is characterized by supporting HDR images (high dynamic range) and wide gamut color space, as well as standard dynamic range (SDR).
As such Chrome is not the first browser to integrate support, as Firefox several weeks ago added experimental support for AVIF in Firefox 77 version (which can be enabled via image.avif.enabled in about: config).
Other encoding formats The images AVIF competes with include the WebP format developed by Google, which is compatible with Android, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and, of course, Google Chrome. WebP grew out of Google's work on the VP8 video format.
Previously in Chrome, the WebP image format was promoted, which according to Google tests, can reduce the size of image files by 25% -34% while maintaining quality at the JPEG format level.
Alternative tests show that WebP is not as effective as Google would like on its browser, if we do not compare it with the reference cjpeg encoder of the JPEG Group, but if we use the more efficient MozJPEG encoder, the gain in WebP is felt only by the low resolutions (500px) that are used more frequently in the web.
With a resolution of 1000px, the result is almost the same, but at 1500px resolution, WebP even lags behind MozJPEG. AVIF in the same tests significantly outperforms MozJPEG, cjpeg and WebP, therefore, browser manufacturers consider it a more promising format.
AVIF can provide superior compression efficiencyA, AVIF's effort is still in an early stage of development. However, the Alliance for Open Media is developing the open source library libavif to encode and decode AVIF images.
The library should help drive adoption and support, which is already happening in Google Chrome.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it About the new implementations, you can check the details in the following links.