New ‘back-forward cache’ feature makes Chrome load webpages faster on PCs

In 2020, Google released the ‘back-forward cache’ feature to Chrome to enable faster loading of webpages on Android phones. now, the company has begun rolling out same for desktop versions of the Chrome app.

“Back-forward cache is a browser feature which improves the user experience by keeping a page alive after the user navigates away from it and reuses it for session history navigation (browser back/forward buttons, history.back(), etc) to make the navigation instant. The pages in the cache are frozen and do not run any javascript,” reads the summary of the document released by Google engineer.

The back-forward cache feature is being made available to all desktop versions including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Once updated to the latest version of the Chrome, the webpages will load up to 20% faster than before.