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Making Chrome QUICer

Photo: Chromium Blog

What happened

In October 2020, Chrome enabled HTTP/3 by default . HTTP/3 ( RFC 9114 ) runs over IETF QUIC ( RFC9000 ). Default-enabling HTTP/3 in Chrome resulted in improved performance compared not only HTTP/1 and HTTP/2, but also Google QUIC. Benefits included reduced Google search latency and fewer rebuffers for YouTube. The journey to optimizing performance did not end when HTTP/3 was default enabled. Recent advancements incl…

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