From PC World: Google recently added another way to reduce your PC's bandwidth demands when you're tethering, or any other situation where every megabyte counts.
Chrome users can now add a new extension called Data Saver (Beta) from the Chrome Web Store that compresses web pages on Google servers before delivering them to your PC, a feature that mobile Chrome has offered since 2013. The new extension does not work when Chrome is in incognito mode or when you connect to a site using SSL (HTTPS) encryption.
Using Data Saver is really easy. You just install it from the Chrome Web Store and the extension gets to work immediately. Data Saver places an icon in your browser to the right of the address bar. Click on it and you can see how much data you've saved, or turn Data Saver off.
For anyone who wants a detailed look at their data compression activity, Chrome evangelist François Beaufort provided this tip. Paste chrome:net-internals#bandwidth into your address bar and hit Enter. This will open a tab showing all your latest bandwidth activity as well as a table at the bottom with a live update of your total bandwidth usage with Data Saver enabled.
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