Chrome 55 removed manual encoding selection

>1) "Auto Detect" option in the hamburger menu. It's a sticky global boolean that turns on a heavy text analyzer to guess the encoding better. It's off by default because it regresses page load time by 10%-20%. By selecting this, users see less gibberish but they make Chrome slower (and don't realize that).

Perhaps then what you do it make it so specific webpages only have that when toggled, and don't apply it globally. I don't know the merits of doing this in an extension or not, so perhaps its reasonable.

This is another action taken under 'project-eraser'. The task of reducing chromes 'complexity'. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=512852

This project is specifically to target low-used features, and remove them. Arguably one of the dangers of user data collection.

I don't know if this is related to project eraser, but there is the removal of chrome://plugins menu in chrome 57, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615738... which also does not appear to have a clear reason other than a better settings menu for plugins such as flash, but goes into the territory of removing the ability to even disable any other plugins, such as widevine.