This New Google Chrome Feature Could Be a Huge Help to Your Mobile Data Plan
This post originally appeared on Business Insider.
Google has a new feature in its Chrome browser for mobile that it thinks could save mobile data use by up to 70 percent.
How? By automatically stripping out images from Web pages.
The search and mobile giant is expanding the Data Saver mode included in Chrome for Android devices. If you're on a slow connection and the feature is enabled, it won't enable most of the images on a page unless you ask it to—saving significant amounts of data.
Here's how it looks in action:
Google didn't invent this idea, of course. There was a similar feature on my Nokia E63, which came out way back in 2008.
But it shows the company is grappling with the issue of connectivity. While this kind of feature isn't
