14 DAY TRIAL // Google Chrome is right now the world’s number one browser, and third-party statistics claim its market share is close to 70 percent on the desktop.
But of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that everything is running just flawlessly with Chrome on the desktop, yet Google is very committed to further refining the experience and improving the existing integration with operating systems.
And the Windows version of Chrome could soon get more polished support for antivirus software, as Google wants to reduce the time it takes to perform certain actions, such as downloading, when security programs running on Windows are involved.
Solution already found
Theoretically, whenever you conduct a task in Google Chrome that involves storing data on your device, the Windows antivirus needs to scan the data to make sure it’s entirely clean. And this is what’s causing some problems in Google Chrome, as the whole process might actually trigger a short lock on these files, eventually making the browser feel like it’s lagging.
“Anti-virus programs and other scanners may briefly lock new files which can lead to frequent problems with saving bookmarks and other files that use the ImportantFileWriter. The race condition between closing the temporary file and moving it gets hit on a regular basis on some system,” a Google engineering says in a Chromium Gerrit post spotted by WL.
And the Chrome team is believed to have found a solution, as they proposed a new approach that would “deal with this by retrying the racy ReplaceFile step a few times. This is only done on Windows because that is hoped to be the only place where it happens.”
Needless to say, it remains to be seen how everything will run when these under-the-hood Chrome improvements go live for everybody, but in the long term, it’s very clear Google wants its browser to play nice with the Windows 10 antivirus too.