![]() It's a time-honored part of how browsers and websites are both built, and speeds up how long it takes for websites to load. If there's no new version of that file, it just displays what you had downloaded last time, delivered from what's called the browser's cache. Long story shortīasically, web browsers periodically check with websites if there are new versions of files that don't change very often, like a logo or an icon. But to make a very long story short, Facebook's own data suggested, circa 2014, that something fishy was going on at Google Chrome. The details are extremely technical, so here's the Facebook engineering blog if you want the really deep dive. The latest example came on Thursday, as Facebook shared how it worked with the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox teams over the last two years to tackle a problem that was slowing down the whole process of loading many common web pages, Facebook included. ![]() Little known fact: As part of its ongoing efforts to make sure that anyone can smoothly browse Facebook from any internet connection, the social network quietly works with the major web browsers to improve performance. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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