Win10 system Edge browser has supported Brotili compression algorithm

The official Microsoft official announced recently that the Edge browser built into the Win10 system now supports the Brotil compression algorithm. At present, Windows Insider users who use more than 14986 can already experience the acceleration of Brotli in the Edge browser. For the average user, it will also be in the Windows 10 Creators Update next spring with the Brotil algorithm "Meet". For users of the Chrome browser, don't feel envious, because the technology comes from Google, and it was fully applied to the Chrome browser earlier this year.

As early as three years ago, Google released the Zotfli compression algorithm to improve page load speed. Later, based on the algorithm and other modern compression requirements, the Brotilic compression algorithm was further developed, and the algorithm was opened sourced in October last year for use by other browser companies.

Brotli is a general purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data by using the variant LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and second-order text modeling. It is a compression method with a high compression ratio. It is about the same speed as Deflate, but provides more intensive compression.

The relevant person in charge of Microsoft said: In the current Windows 10 preview version, Microsoft Edge browser supports Brotil compression on both HTTPS and HTTP links. However, in future preview releases, we will update this behavior to give Brotil compression support only on HTTPS links. Like Chrome, we will continue to decode Brotli on HTTP content links.