Big changes for devs: Chrome 91 lands with WebAssembly SIMD, JSON modules, clipboard file support

Google has released Chrome 91, and although there's little new on the surface, there are key changes for developers including WebAssembly SIMD, JSON modules, a Gravity Sensor API, and read-only access to files on the clipboard. SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) is hardware acceleration which enables a single instruction …

[karlkarl]

Great, faster, so they can shovel even more useless shit through my processor at a faster rate. ;)

[Abominator]

Pretty sure the performance issues people see in browsers are not due to lack of SIMID instruction set. It the ridiculous amount of code that is expected to execute in the browser with 'modern' UI frameworks. What people do not realise is these SIMID instructions also kill the turbo modes on the CPU's so other applications suffer.

Don't leave your shitty browser running while to try and play a game.

Modern browsers and web technologies are a performance disease. Just look at the enormous amounts of memory and CPU they use.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Another change is read-only files support for the clipboard. This will enable applications such as email clients to support pasting files from the clipboard, rather than attaching them via upload or drag-and-drop."

Which means files can be uploaded programmatically (because they can be loaded to the clip board programmatically) without user interaction. I see that as an increased security risk - a superhighway to get data out of a users computer. I would rather that feature were off by default.

[Anonymous Coward]

In God We Trust

How to prevent counterfeit or untrustily-copied trust tokens? The obvious way is a function which integrates browser fingerprint into the trust token. However, that method seems like it has potential for making a trust token also serve as a unique user identifier. Of course trust tokens will be opt in ...

[Pascal Monett]

"it could reduce ad fraud"

I can reduce ad fraud in an instant. NoScript and uBlock Origin kills ad fraud.

Oh, it also kills most ads. Well, you know what they say about omlettes . . .

[Falmari]

Gravity Sensor API

Gravity Sensor API this is a safety feature for your android phone.

Google "I see you are standing on the pavement outside Tesco if you drop your phone it will suffer damage have you considered a phone case £5.99 from Tesco."

Google "I see you are standing in your boss's carpeted office your phone is safe from damage if dropped. Sorry that your boss is going to make you redundant sign up for our employment agency. "