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Chrome 63 Beta Rolls Out With Dynamic Module Imports, Device Memory API

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 27 October 2017 at 11:36 AM EDT. 4 Comments

Ahead of the weekend, the beta of Chrome 63 is now available for all supported platforms.

Headlining features of Chrome 63 Beta include dynamic module import handling for JavaScript modules, asynchronous iterators and generators, a device memory API, permissions user-interface changes, version two of the NT LAN Manager API, and a variety of other CSS/JavaScript changes.

The new Device Memory API in Chrome 63 allows finding out about the total RAM capacity of client machines in order to determine if it's a low/high-end device if wanting to deliver a "lite" version of an application among other possibilities. Those wanting to learn more about the new Device Memory API can see this W3C GitHub repository.

More details on the Chrome 63 beta via the Chromium blog.

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