Chrome for Android/iOS Cuts Browsing Bandwidth in Half
The Google Chrome Blog was updated on Wednesday with news of a new release for Chrome Mobile on Android and iOS that promises up to 50 percent in data reduction, thus saving users money on their data plan. This data savings is due to a new compression and bandwidth management feature in Google's mobile browser, launched on Wednesday.
To start saving that precious mobile data, Chrome users simply visit "Settings" > "Bandwidth Management" > "Reduce Data Usage." From there Chrome users can slide the toggle to "On." Even more, on this menu, users can see how much bandwidth they save each month when using Chrome, as seen in the supplied screenshot.
In addition to the data savings, Chrome for Android will allow users to create shortcuts to their favorite websites right on the home screen for faster and easier access to the Web. To make these shortcuts, users simply select "Add to home screen" from the toolbar menu when visiting a site to save. For certain websites, the shortcut will open in a full-screen experience and appear as a separate app in the Android app switcher.
On the Apple iOS front, Google plans to introduce Google Translate in Chrome for iOS in the coming days, so stay tuned.
"With this update, you can now translate webpages in Chrome with the click of a button on your iPhone and iPad, just as you're used to on Chrome for desktop and Android. To translate a page into your phone or tablet's native language, just look for the translation bar and select 'Translate'," writes Matt Welsh, Software Engineer & Data Squasher Extraordinaire.
Download the latest releases of Chrome for Mobile at the Play Store and App Store. The updates will reportedly roll out over the next several days.

So now Google will be able to track every single website you go to and how you interact with it, on the fly. This will be a gold mine for targeted advertising and three letter government agencies alike.
Goodbye Chrome. I just wish Firefox for android wasn't so crappy.
I can't get pass the fact that typing something into Firefox's search/address bar and hitting enter/search doesn't perform a search, it tries to goto a website using what you typed as an address. It is clearly meant to perform a search as well because the enter button's icon is a magnifying glass. The only way to search is to type something and click on the suggestion provided by one of the search providers. I can't figure how to change this annoying default behavior for the life of me.
I usually kept it disabled because when I had a good connection it was actually faster with it off (hence why it is disabled by default on Chrome, I'd imagine), and I had unlimited data so it wasn't at all desirable. However it came in handy when I went someplace where I had a really piss poor connection. Nowadays I'd only turn it on if I got low on remaining data, which would be basically never (I usually download anything of great significance on wifi anyway).