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- klitzbtc, on 09/03/2008, -32/+310Where's my Linux version.
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -67/+329wheres opera?
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -17/+200Until Chrome gets an ABP add on, speed doesn't matter.
- rkiga, on 09/03/2008, -3/+161looks great. now if only they had a new flash plugin that didn't constantly chunk away CPU usage...
- tjex, on 09/03/2008, -4/+105Here is Opera.
http://www.axioblog.com/googles-chrome-browser-in- ...
Second fastest.. but still way behind - workharderscum, on 09/03/2008, -2/+103And adblock, so the amount of flash stuff on screen is dramatically reduced
- theblt, on 09/02/2008, -64/+165No offense, but Opera has less than 1% of the browser market share. In any case, Opera's performance is usually between that of Firefox and Safari. So one would assume that Chrome would still be the winner by far.
http://bdn.backbase.com/blog/sjoerd/performance-is ... - Nekiruhs, on 09/03/2008, -14/+102Like I said, faster than a hyped up cheetah on crack strapped to a jet engine powered by rocket fuel from 3000 years in the future.
- SBelyea, on 09/03/2008, -3/+87I'd be interested to see the Beta of Firefox 3.1 tested against Chrome. Isn't that release supposed to have JavaScript handling an order of magnitude better than the current version?
- cdawzrd, on 09/03/2008, -16/+99"...Second, my apologies here to Opera, whose browser I don't have installed. "
Regardless, I doubt Opera is significantly different than FF3.1 on these tests. - andre321, on 09/03/2008, -0/+76ninjas who like to watch porn while buying people gifts
- ciaran036, on 09/02/2008, -4/+79But this is only a test for Javascript. Are there any other tests comparing browsers? I'm using the browser now and does seem to be faster, and it seems to better cater for what I use browsers for - and it automatically imported all my bookmarks and usernames and passwords.
- To0pak, on 09/03/2008, -3/+70incognito mode is great for ninjas
- alapoet, on 09/03/2008, -12/+75Dammit, they need to hurry up with the Mac version...
- Spankypoo, on 09/03/2008, -3/+65Google Chrome loads ads infinitely faster than Firefox with AdBlock, too!
- ejdmoo, on 09/03/2008, -2/+62These tests were written by Google...a tad suspect...
http://code.google.com/apis/v8/run.html - fugazied, on 09/03/2008, -23/+81Where's my Mac version.
- PixelEater, on 09/03/2008, -0/+53I'm looking at Digg for the first time in about a year with ads, and it looks like I'm inside a clown car. Which attracted a single woman, actually.
- digitalmischief, on 09/03/2008, -2/+51***** is so fast i had to adjust my scroll settings... doubt it will stay that way, but i'll enjoy it as long as it lasts...
- e2superman, on 09/03/2008, -7/+56Google Chrome EULA:
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
Thoughts? Can someone explain this one in plain English? Are they saying that anything you do on the browser can be used by them? Also "publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display"? - KMartSheriff, on 09/03/2008, -1/+43Aye. Firefox 3.1 and Safari 4 both have huge javascript speed increases. It will be interesting to see how they all pair up.
- ashwinmudigonda, on 09/03/2008, -4/+43Yeahyeah! It all starts this way. The first release is always functional! Then comes the form factor. Gazillion Addons and tweaks and speed improvers and this and that. By the third release, it will be blissfully slow and comparable to any of the browsers.
- PixelEater, on 09/03/2008, -2/+40All it takes is developers, developers, developers!
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -4/+40As of right now Chrome has less than Opera for market share. Opera is considered one of the big three, might as well include it in benchmarks.
- Zarokima, on 09/03/2008, -7/+43Dealbreaker: no adblock
- digiwand, on 09/03/2008, -1/+35Tell me about it! I forgot there WERE ads on the web!
Colour me shocked, I'll try it again when it has an adblocker function. Firefox will still beat the snot out of it with how much crap it isn't loading.
I do like what they're doing with it though, and hope that it does develop. Could grow to like it. - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -1/+35It wouldn't have taken long to install it though would it?
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -4/+37opera has over 2% now, its 0.5% less than safari so its not that bad...
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a ... - mileswj, on 09/03/2008, -16/+49This is ***** stupid.
Of course Chrome will be faster... its basic as can possibly be, theres no real addons, or amazing features, or extra code to bog it down compared to the others... its bare to the bone besides being a browser. - noPCtoday, on 09/03/2008, -3/+36Javascript is the key here...
just copy pasted from my other post in a forum:
Chrome is a very different concept. to most people it's probably just another broswer on the market. But Google is not stupid, besides FF is their close partner.
IMO Chrome is a HUGE leap in browser concept. The main purpose of Chrome is not a everyday browser, but a huge Web Application platform that is highly customizable and stable.
The biggest thing, most people ignored, is the V8 virtual machine. Javascript is just a scripting language, no browsers even attempt to compile it. not even Firefox 3. V8 is the first ever compiler for Javascript, and compiled language is like 1000x(exaggeration, but still..) faster than an emulated language.I won't be surprised if it runs faster than the rumored Firefox 3.1. Similar to JVM and .Net, it is cross platform, it is highly efficient, highly consistent and highly object oriented. V8 can perhaps finally make Javascript REAL object oriented language, and it will also run the same on all platform and all broswers.
No wonder google is pushing the open source V8 idea, because it wants other browsers like IE8, FF, webkit to adapt.
It doesn't really need fancy functions like regular browsers. although google might add some to attract new users.
But yeah, i don't think Chrome is a hype, but rather a innovation. people will probably finally realize what Chrome was meant to do. It's not a everyday browser. its an App platform.
you mignht not notice the difference if you run simple javascript, but if you use it on some heavy duty Javascript apps(by heavy i mean HEAVY, probably ones that doesn't even exist yet), and you will notice a big difference. - Noctem, on 09/03/2008, -2/+35People still don't know that 'FTW' means 'For The Win' and is in no way trying to be a funny and clever reversal of WTF?
- zsz7, on 09/03/2008, -0/+31Ad muncher: 30 day trial, $29 afterwards
ABP : free - cbodall, on 09/03/2008, -6/+36lol
.........oh you're serious? - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -4/+34Everybody provide your list of likes and dislikes.
Goods:
1. Flash works out of the box
2. Active elements are highlighted
3. Scroll position is maintained when using the browser back button (in FF this requires an extension)
4. Clean interface
5. Small memory footprint
6. Google gears capabilities
Bads:
1. Zoom distorts page structure
2. Lack of third-party plugins - SmokinWeed, on 09/03/2008, -0/+29I thought those were the two major factors of ninja training...
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -6/+31THE GOOGLES
ZEY DO NOTHZING - GothAlice, on 09/03/2008, -3/+27Which is kind-of the reason I use a browser in the first place. To browse the web. Not compare anatomy with my neighbor over how many extensions or themes I use. If it has developer tools, I'm good to go. And Webkit -has- developer tools.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+23The history page freaks me out. I don't know if stored locally or on Google's servers.
- johnwoo32, on 09/03/2008, -5/+27Does anybody else get creepy feelings of Google-*.life? I like their stuff and use it daily, but i wonder what happens if everything i use one day is Google.
- Myonosken, on 09/03/2008, -13/+34@gcn: Because the idea is to compare new and shiny Chrome to the big browsers. How the ***** can you do that if you don't include Chrome?
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+21"Rocket fuel" is only a metaphor. Your brain can't handle what they really call it, as there is not even a word for it. It is just an understanding of it's properties that are transmitted telepathically through a syntaxless mental language previously only known by those born deaf. You can't even think without hearing your native language in your mind, so until we evolve beyond that stage, we will call it "rocket fuel from 3000 years in the future" or alternately "dark graviton slurry".
- iofthestorm, on 09/03/2008, -3/+23Chrome is still miles faster than anything else on Dromaeo, Mozilla's test, and SunSpider, which I believe is Webkit's. But at the end of the day, benchmark performance in JS isn't enough to get me to leave Firefox. I'm sure we'll see more customizability in the future though, which will make it nicer. But the amount of time necessary to duplicate all the extensions I use and find essential will probably make it useless in the long run, as I'm almost certain Firefox will catch up in JS speed eventually.
- trigatch4, on 09/03/2008, -13/+33Chrome FTW... will the Android Mobile version be called ChroMo?
Big Chrome forum started over at http://ChromeSpot.com - inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+20To everyone who dugg you down, imagine someone posting this same comment back around 1992, but with one minor change:
"Does anybody else get creepy feelings of Microsoft-*.life? I like their stuff and use it daily, but i wonder what happens if everything i use one day is Microsoft." - aliveonline, on 09/03/2008, -5/+24it's awesome and it looks really clean! i like the Incognito feature "very useful INDEED >:)"
Diggin using Google Chrome = amazing! - maninalift, on 09/03/2008, -0/+19From page:
Note: There is no working Chromium-based browser on Linux. Although many Chromium submodules build under Linux and a few unit tests pass, all that runs is a command-line "all tests pass" executable.
:( - Observer001, on 09/03/2008, -1/+19Good data, thanks for the effort. We need more folks like you on Digg and fewer political zombies and ***** THE RIAAers.
- PixelEater, on 09/03/2008, -2/+20BETTER GO INCOGNITO, MAN!
- gcnaddict, on 09/03/2008, -15/+32"No offense, but Opera has less than 1% "
This post is about a browser with 0.1% market share, and you're bitching about a browser with 2(not 1)% market share?
Why are you being dugg up? -
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