Google Chrome

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
What do you want to edit images in a browser for? Browse with a browser, edit images in an image editing app, not some cobbled together sluggish browser live-app "thing". :mad:
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:shrug: Photoshop Express is piling up users, and so's the whole cloud computing thing. Doing that without needing a proprietary plugin like Flash or Silverlight would be a win, and with fast JS it can stop being a "sluggish browser live-app 'thing'"...

There's loads of apps that aren't possible in a current browser just because of JS speed, image editing was just the (fairly extreme) example I've seen first hand. Even just speeding up JS-heavy pages like Gmail is worthwhile when you consider that a 5x speedup starts to make these things usable on a mobile device using an identical browser.
 
Just installed it know. Got a computer mag today to waste a few hours and it had an article about it in there.
The way it runs each tab as a separate app and as such a separate thread looks very interesting.

Didn't know it existed before today.
 
Is there any skins or ways to customise it so the tabs come under the icon bar.
And why isn't there a bar at the bottom of the page saying loading and a progress bar, and the padlock and stuff. Look well weird without it.
 
I tried that javascript test, chrome was 10x faster than firefox :o however, personally I do not see any real improvement of general page load speed or much difference in browsing speed between IE7/IE8/Chrome/Safari/Firefox they all seem pretty much the same to me.

I liked chrome after trying it out all day at work on my laptop I got home, loaded up firefox and thought ewww and installed chrome straight away, however, whilst I was using it i saw no improvement or difference in general page load, some sites had broken visual styles and a couple of features are still a little buggy, like opening links in new tabs... Just doesn't work sometimes.

Chrome just made me download the chromium skin for firefox and get more addons!

Also, the main bonus for me that chrome should display is this structure of each tab has it's own process, which in theory means that 1 other tab crashing or slowing down for script reasons should not affect the other tabs, but it just hasn't worked for me, anytime i've had a page freezing it still freezes the entire browser :(

Acid, i never liked the statusbar, it's nice to see where links go, which chrome does, I don't like it because i use fission, which serves as a loading indicator for me.
 
Skyfall said:
I tried that javascript test, chrome was 10x faster than firefox :o however, personally I do not see any real improvement of general page load speed or much difference in browsing speed between IE7/IE8/Chrome/Safari/Firefox they all seem pretty much the same to me.
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The reason for this, imho, is the JS tests are setup to be very calculation heavy which is easy to enforce types, JIT and execute natively but most JS on websites is for DOM maniplulations which is slow and hard to optimise and even harder to enfore types on.
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned anywhere but have to say just noticed a really great thing about chrome. when closing many many tabs they don't resize as you get less, which means you can click like crazy until the ones you want closed are all gone without having to move your mouse to find the new position of the x button :)
 
Mammalian said:
Not sure if it's been mentioned anywhere but have to say just noticed a really great thing about chrome. when closing many many tabs they don't resize as you get less, which means you can click like crazy until the ones you want closed are all gone without having to move your mouse to find the new position of the x button :)
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Hi Mammalian, if I'm understanding you correctly, you could alternatively hold down the Ctrl button and keep pressing "W" which will also close the tab that you are currently on. :)
 
was using firefox but noticed resource hungry and recent update caused frequent crashing. saw a post on a firefox thread recommending chrome....

have now been using chrome with IE7 for 1 week and i have got to report a vast improvement over firefox

much much quicker :cool: and after finding my way round am enjoying the features.... especially tab browsing on my most visited sites

very well put together imo and really enjoying it :)
 
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Is it just me or has Chrome been really slow and unstable the last few weeks. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it and it still crashes on me once or twice a day so it's definitely the current build rather than just me. It was stabler when it was in beta!
 
manveruppd said:
Is it just me or has Chrome been really slow and unstable the last few weeks. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it and it still crashes on me once or twice a day so it's definitely the current build rather than just me. It was stabler when it was in beta!
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Not had that problem personally, Runs rock solid here with 20+ tabs open, no slow down/locking up/crashing whatsoever. Still my favourite browser & will remain so for the near future :)
 
manveruppd said:
Is it just me or has Chrome been really slow and unstable the last few weeks. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it and it still crashes on me once or twice a day so it's definitely the current build rather than just me. It was stabler when it was in beta!
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Its been ok for me, 20+ tabs open on start up, although I had to kill the flash plugin the other day.
 
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