Google wants to make Chrome for Android faster via GPU rendering

Google is working with Project Ganesh to speed up the Chrome browser for Android by letting the GPU handle more tasks. The development is still at an early stage and for the time being only works in builds of Chrome that are used internally at Google.

The arrival of Project Ganesh was announced at a developer meeting hosted by Google, Android Police reported. The project mainly revolves around having the GPU handle the rendering of web pages within Chrome for Android. For the time being, the calculations are performed by the CPU, which makes the browser feel slow in some cases, for example when scrolling.

Google has already gotten Project Ganesh working within Chrome for Android, but hasn’t released a working version yet. For now, Project Ganesh only runs within an internal Canary build, where it is still unclear when users will have access to it. By making it faster, Google hopes to be able to run the browser interface at 60fps.

Incidentally, only 15 percent of the web content currently works with Project Ganesh technology. As a result, not all web pages can be rendered faster. That should probably be improved in the future.