Google Chrome 96 release, back forward cache speeds up page navigation

On November 15th (US time), Google released "Chrome 96", the latest version of the web browser "Chrome". In "Google Releases Chrome 96 With Back-Forward Cache Enabled For The Desktop," Phoronix highlights Chrome 96's major new features, including enabling back-forward caching on the desktop version.

Back forward cache is a technology that saves a complete copy of a web page that has been visited once in memory so that it can be displayed extremely quickly when the same page is visited again by pressing the [Back] button. . Originally, the Android version of Chrome could use back-forward caching, but from Chrome 96, it was also installed in desktop versions such as Windows and macOS.

The back-forward cache can be enabled/disabled with the flag "chrome://flags/#back-forward-cache". By default it is only enabled for cross-site page navigation, but you can enable it for intra-site navigation by setting this flag to Enabled same-site support. However, this setting is still in the experimental stage. Similarly, there's an experimental setting to force all pages to be cached.

Other major new features in Chrome 96 include: