For Windows users who prefer Google Chrome as their go-to browser, there’s been a longstanding frustration regarding font rendering.

The way fonts appeared in Chrome on Windows 10 and 11 often left users feeling dissatisfied, with text appearing blurry or not rendering as crisply as desired.

However, relief is on the horizon as Microsoft has taken steps to address this issue, bringing much-needed improvements to the font rendering experience for Chrome users.

Font Rendering Discrepancies

The font rendering discrepancies between Chrome and other browsers on Windows systems have been a point of contention for some time. While browsers like Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox displayed text with clarity and sharpness, Chrome seemed to lag behind in providing a comparable experience. This led to complaints from users who found themselves toggling between browsers to achieve optimal readability.

Fortunately, Microsoft has recognized the importance of ensuring consistent font rendering across different browsers on its operating systems. With recent updates, Microsoft has implemented changes that specifically target the font rendering issues experienced by Chrome users. By fine-tuning the font rendering engine in Windows 10 and 11, Microsoft aims to deliver a more uniform experience across all major browsers.

Improvements

The improvements come as welcome news for users who rely on Chrome for their browsing needs. Clear and legible text is essential for a seamless web browsing experience, whether for work, study, or leisure. With Microsoft’s efforts to address font rendering issues, Chrome users can expect text to appear sharper and more visually pleasing, bringing it closer in line with competing browsers.

The significance of these improvements extends beyond mere aesthetics. Clear font rendering enhances readability, particularly for websites heavy on text-based content such as articles, blogs, and research papers. Improved legibility contributes to reduced eye strain and fatigue, promoting a more comfortable browsing experience for users spending extended periods online.

Microsoft Commitment

Microsoft’s commitment to addressing font rendering issues reflects its dedication to enhancing the overall user experience on Windows systems. By collaborating with browser developers like Google to iron out compatibility issues, Microsoft demonstrates a proactive approach to ensuring that users can enjoy a seamless browsing experience regardless of their browser preference.

As Windows users receive updates that incorporate these font rendering improvements, they can look forward to a more consistent and visually pleasing browsing experience across all major browsers. Whether reading news articles, conducting research, or simply browsing the web, users can trust that text will display with clarity and precision, enhancing the overall enjoyment and usability of their Windows devices.

Conclusions

In conclusion, Microsoft’s initiative to fix Chrome’s font issues on Windows 10 and 11 marks a significant step forward in improving the browsing experience for millions of users worldwide. By addressing font rendering discrepancies, Microsoft reaffirms its commitment to delivering a user-friendly computing environment that prioritizes clarity, consistency, and accessibility across all aspects of the Windows operating system.

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After lots of work, Google managed to present Chrome 98 in the very first days of 2022.

In this brief article, you will find everything you need to know about Google Chrome 98.

There are useful features in this new software, that will make Chrome even better.

What’s new in Chrome 98?

Google listened carefully Chrome’s users and they decided to include most of the features that people wanted.

In plus, they did improvements that most people didn’t expect to see soon.

As always, Google made a super job with this new version.

This is what you need to know.

Built-in screenshot feature for desktop

I don’t know what type of user you are, but I am constantly taking screenshots of my desktop computer.

So, I am super glad Chrome 98 is finally having its own bult-in screenshot utility software.

Forget about 3rd party software, we will use Chrome to make our screenshots. It is not that this software are not great, but usually they have things that I don’t like (are not user friendly, some are not free, and so on).

Taking screenshots will be quick and easy.

Screenshots can be personalized with emoji

Another cool feature of Chrome 98 is that the software lets us easily personalize screenshots with emoji.

So, if you are taking a screenshot with Chrome 98, you have the possibility to add the emoji you want.

This is in plus of drawing and adding text.

Now we can take a screenshot, add text and make a drawing, and at the end add a emoji so the receiver know what we feel about.

Think about it, this is super useful, and it will be very simple to use.

Full privacy control

Google will let you fully control privacy.

Chrome 98 has tons of settings that you can make to fully protect your privacy.

You might say that Google already does that, but now they went the extra mile.

This doesn’t mean that Google wants you to stop sharing your data with them, but they better explain you what you need to know to make the right decision for you.

HDR improvements for CSS

With Chrome 98, web developers will have the possibility to use CLL to poll whether the screen their website is currently displayed on supports HDR content.

You always wanted this feature?

Here it is, enjoy it.

Better looking emoji

Chrome 98 made emoji look clearer and crisper.

In plus, all of them take less storage than before.

This is not all

Chrome 98 is in Beta, so new updates for sure will follow.

Stay tuned and find out in the following weeks what Chrome 98 has to offer.

Conclusions

Chrome 98 will be much easier to use, faster, safer, and it will have many built-in features that will help us get rid of 3rd party software.

Google is always delivering a top-level of quality, usefulness, and user-friendly software. They are similar to Apple from this point of view, both companies put lots of effort and resources into developing outstanding software and pieces of equipment.

As already mentioned, Chrome 98 is in Beta, so it is not the final version, but soon we will have it installed and use it with pleasure.

Probably you are as curious as me to find out what other goodies will Google Chrome 98 come with.

Stay tuned, a follow-up article to this one will be launched when times come.

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The change to Chrome browser took place in October 2020. It affected the performance of Google Fonts for millions of websites.

It is a massive headache for both Google and us, the website owners.

What is a browser cache system and which is his role?

Browser cache is a smart solution that browsers use so we can access faster web files.

With no cache, the browser would load every time all these files.

You might think that we have 5G and strong internet connection, and cache is not important, but this not actually accurate.

Most of the world hasn’t such a good internet connection.

And in plus, search engines penalize websites that are slow loading.

So, cache is extremely important as it heavily decreases the loading time for a website.

There are 2 downsides of cache:

• The first is that you might see an older version of the website. From time to time, hit the refresh button to be sure that you see the latest version.

• From a security point of view, cache is not the best as the files were shared from your cache for different websites.

If an image was already in your cache and you visit a new website with the same image, Chrome gets it from your cache.

This result in web attacks and all kind of bad stuff.

What about Google Chrome New Cache Partitioning?

Chrome 86 was released in October 2020 and this new version came with an entire new caching system.

Before this update, Chrome was using a big cache for all websites (sharing files from different websites – it is one of the cache downsides).

Now Google instead uses a portioned Chrome cache. That means that each website will have its own “cache”.

They did it to increase security, and this move for sure stopped already thousands of web attacks.

But this move affected the performance of web services designed around the old cache system.

One such web service is Google Fonts, a web portal launched in 2010.

The service allows website owners to load any font hosted on Google servers by writing a single line of JavaScript or CSS code.

According to BuiltWith web statistics service, Google Fonts are currently used on over 42.7 million websites.

Now just imagine the impact of new Chrome cache partitioning feature.

What should you do?

Simon Wicki, a popular frontend developer from Berlin, wrote in a blog post this week that Chrome 86 made Google Fonts completely useless.

This happened beecause the cache system will force users to re-download all the fonts that each website, they visit use.

To help your website visitors, you should to self-host custom fonts directly on your server, or hosting provider.

In my opinion, hosting providers will probably use this solution for all their users. Let’s see if I am right.

The idea of self-host fonts is not new, it was discussed quite often in 2018 by several web developers and even by Google in I/O 2018 talk.

Conclusions

Nobody expected such a bold move from Google. Chrome new cache partitioning heavily impacted Google Fonts performance and even more. It might destroy it.

Probably Google team projected this huge impact and they will soon come with a solution. At least this what the 42.7 million websites that use Google fonts hope.

We will continue the discussion of this subject on WhatFontIs blog.

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