tgdaily.com— Judging by the 1.0 release of Chrome in November and two minor updates that followed, uptake of Google's browser appears to have lost steam. It's as if Google lost its edge in the innovation arena.
Jan 29, 2009View in Crawl 4
@DarkhackerI agree with those of your points that I'm familiar enough with to have formed an opinion on.However, you keep repeating the argument that if one tab crashes the same bug can be triggered in all of the other tabs. This is true, but is largely irrelevant with most peoples' browsing habits. Almost all browser "crashes" that the average user encounters these days are badly written or badly handled JavaScript/plugin content that sends the process straight for 100% CPU. Most people aren't going to have this same site, or at least the _same condition from this site_ that caused this crash, open in several tabs at once.This means that while one tab may bomb, it might save me having to "lose" (reopen with Firefox's built-in tab recovery) several tabs.
@DarkhackerI tend to agree that the MP model seems wasteful in this regard. Of course it seems like you and I both were around to remember when programmers were _much_ more mindful of memory usage and proper gc. Those times are gone, for consumer software, it seems.
The multiprocess thingy is about security, not stability, so the hacked pron site can't access data in your internet banking tab. As applications like browsers get more and more sandboxed, the next way to attack your data is knowing that the browser will run for a long time after visiting the hacked site and good change it will be used with sensitive data.By the way, I use chrome on my simple eee pc with 1GB and it runs like butter ;-). I especially like the 'intelligent' address bar.
How many add ons do you use on Firefox? Granted Chrome is lightning quick, my Firefox browser is hampered by 20 or so add-ons/RSS feeds that require loading each time I launch. I'd say that without all those Chrome would still be a faster platform, but the difference would be significantly less.
I have made Chrome my primary browser and FF secondary except @ work where I have to use FF for our enterprise Apps. Chrome has come a long way and I definitely like its speed and small memory and CPU footprint.
Closed AccountJan 30, 2009
I love chrome for its speed and low memory usage. I do miss adblock though
michaelhoodJan 30, 2009
@DarkhackerI agree with those of your points that I'm familiar enough with to have formed an opinion on.However, you keep repeating the argument that if one tab crashes the same bug can be triggered in all of the other tabs. This is true, but is largely irrelevant with most peoples' browsing habits. Almost all browser "crashes" that the average user encounters these days are badly written or badly handled JavaScript/plugin content that sends the process straight for 100% CPU. Most people aren't going to have this same site, or at least the _same condition from this site_ that caused this crash, open in several tabs at once.This means that while one tab may bomb, it might save me having to "lose" (reopen with Firefox's built-in tab recovery) several tabs.
michaelhoodJan 30, 2009
@DarkhackerI tend to agree that the MP model seems wasteful in this regard. Of course it seems like you and I both were around to remember when programmers were _much_ more mindful of memory usage and proper gc. Those times are gone, for consumer software, it seems.
purzzzellJan 31, 2009
Problem with the graph, IMO, is it's just too damned small to be able to see anything.
purzzzellJan 31, 2009
Digg has comments. My keyboard has a "shift" button and an "I" key. I use that to denote first person..
hongkongjapieJan 31, 2009
The multiprocess thingy is about security, not stability, so the hacked pron site can't access data in your internet banking tab. As applications like browsers get more and more sandboxed, the next way to attack your data is knowing that the browser will run for a long time after visiting the hacked site and good change it will be used with sensitive data.By the way, I use chrome on my simple eee pc with 1GB and it runs like butter ;-). I especially like the 'intelligent' address bar.
Closed AccountFeb 3, 2009
Let Chrome run Firefox plugins!.. or at the very least make it extremely easy to convert Firefox plugins to Chrome, then I MIGHT use Chrome.
srg13Mar 8, 2009
"you can search any website you want using user-defined keywords in the URL bar."Just like I've been doing in Firefox for two years now?
tomr1458699Aug 1, 2009
How many add ons do you use on Firefox? Granted Chrome is lightning quick, my Firefox browser is hampered by 20 or so add-ons/RSS feeds that require loading each time I launch. I'd say that without all those Chrome would still be a faster platform, but the difference would be significantly less.
atish505Sep 24, 2009
I have made Chrome my primary browser and FF secondary except @ work where I have to use FF for our enterprise Apps. Chrome has come a long way and I definitely like its speed and small memory and CPU footprint.