With Google’s browser Chrome finally making its way towards Apple, iOS users rejoiced and downloaded the world’s most popular browser within seconds of learning regarding its existence in the App Store (making it one of the highest downloaded app in a day) but unlike Android users, they were hugely disappointed by limitations enforced on Nitro Javascript engine due to which Chrome’s browsing speed wasn’t as impressive as it was meant to be.
However, if you’re a jailbreak users then you won’t be disappointed by Apple’s narrow minded approach anymore since there has appeared a new jailbreak tweak by the name of “Nitrous” which enables Google Chrome to take full advantage of the Nitro JavaScript Engine (previously which could be used by Safari only).
You must be wondering by how much the performance have been improved with using this jailbreak tweak, well by using SunSpider’s Javascript Benchmark tool, following are the results.
GREEN = Stock Chrome , RED = Nitrous Powered Chrome
As you can see the total time taken by the nitrous powered Chrome to render the JavaScript module took 4 X less time than the stock version. Through this score, you can imagine how buttery Chrome would work if you got yourself free from Apple’s ridiculous restrictions via Jailbreak.
Not only Chrome can take benefit from this tweak, Nitorous can assist any webkit browser and make it faster. It can even speed up apps that render web views. For instance, Tweetbot is listed as a supported app in the tweak’s settings panel.
Pretty cool huh ?, well then get Nitrous for your iOS 5 or greater device for $0.99 from the BigBoss repository and feel the raw power that Chrome brings within!.
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