In an announcement made on Wednesday, tech giant Google said that it has rolled out an updated version of its Chrome browser for the Apple iOS mobile operating system, in an effort to deliver substantially improved performance and reliability as compared to the earlier browser version.

According to Google, the updated Chrome for iOS version comes with some notable under-the-hood enhancements which have been introduced to increase the speed of the browser and reduce its vulnerability to crashes.

Announcing the updated Chrome for iOS version in a Wednesday blog post, Google product manager AbdelKarim Mardini said that the Chrome crashes which the users of popular iOS devices - the iPhone and the iPad - witness quite frequently will now be greatly reduced.

Though Google has not divulged details about the frequency of typical Chrome crashes on iOS devices, the company has claimed that, as a result of the release of the updated Chrome for iOS version, the users of iOS devices will likely experience a 70 percent drop in Chrome crash rate on their devices.

Moreover, enlisting some other advantages of the updated Chrome for iOS version, Google said: "Switching to background tabs will cause pages to reload 25 percent less often. JavaScript speed on benchmarks such as Octane is an order of magnitude faster, and scrolling is smoother and more responsive."