Status: Unconfirmed Owner: ---- Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc New issue 24697 by kartik.vad: Feature Request: Support 7-zip or bzip2 compression http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24697
Since 7-zip and bzip2 provide better compression than gzip, it will be good for Chrome to support one of them. There's an increased CPU cost, but most computers have lot of idle CPU anyway. There's also increased server cost, but let the server make that decision rather than the client. For instance, there's no reason it can't be used for static files. This especially matters when you take a global perspective rather than a US-centric one, where a lot of people have lots of local compute power but little bandwidth. For instance, 256kbps DSL metered connections are common in India. I often browse the web on my Macbook Pro over an EDGE connection (via tethering, and yes, my carrier officially allows that). Let the browser not be the bottleneck that drives the tradeoff between CPU and network and cost (with a metered plan). -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
