It is based on Google’s SPDY (pronounced speedy) an experimental TCP-based network protocol. Webpages are compressed via Google SPDY proxy servers so that they use much less data than the originals. This feature still in development is available behind a switch that you can enable by running: adb shell ‘echo “chrome –enable-spdy-proxy-auth” > /data/local/tmp/content-shell-command-line’ [via]
