Google Chrome will be much faster with the next fixes for Windows 10
Since the launch of Windows 10 , Microsoft takes everything related to the security of its operating system very seriously. In addition to Windows Defender, the best antivirus we can use in this operating system, the company has also included a series of low-level security measures designed to best protect us from all types of computer attacks and attacks. vulnerabilities, even the most unknown. Although this does not normally affect the user, a safety measure has resulted in the slow-down Chromium-based web browsers , such as Google Chrome, slower than normal.
A new security measure introduced in Windows 10 a year ago, Control Flow Guard , has led all Chromium-based browsers, such as Google Chrome or the new Chromium Edge, to run up to 3 times slower than they should. This problem has been present in the operating system since the arrival of this security measure and no one noticed it, until the people in charge of Vivaldi have seen how a custom test for these browsers, which previously took 100 minutes, now takes between 300 and 400 minutes to complete.
After much investigation, finally those responsible for this browser has found that the person responsible for this loss of performance was the control of Flow guard , a security measure that Microsoft has introduced in its operating system in order to protect your operating system from corruption of the memory. Apply restrictions on place where each application can or cannot execute code.
Microsoft will fix this issue with upcoming security patches for Windows 10, and Chromium-based browsers will be up to 3 times faster.
After spending so much time unnoticed, this flaw in Windows 10 will be fixed this month, when the company releases its new security patches for the operating system. These security fixes, if all goes well, should reach all users on the 14 may 2019, the second Tuesday of this month.
The safest thing is that at first glance we do not notice a great improvement in the performance of browsers after the Windows 10 update, because where this loss of performance was most noticeable was in specific developer performance tests. Either way, users of older, less powerful computers will be able to see how smoother the browser is by not experiencing the issues it caused with the Windows Defender CFG security measure.
CFG is a security measure exclusive to the latest versions of Windows 10, so that users who use other versions of the operating system, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, will not see any improvement after updating their systems, as browsers have not been experiencing performance issues at this time.
We remind you that Microsoft is the first interested in the fact that Chromium works well in its operating system since it is working on a new browser, Edge Chromium, which uses the same Google Chrome engine and which will replace the current Edge in order to become a worthy rival for Google.
