Thread: Google Chrome - new search engine

...and based on Safari

Here's a not-so-favourable review from the SMH-
Review: Google Chrome lacks polish under the hood - Breaking News - Technology - smh.com.au

At work, I often have 40 or 50 tabs open in Firefox, grouped in different windows depending on which topic they pertain to. Frequently, Firefox would slow down all the other applications on my computer, then seize up completely.

At first I thought JavaScript was to blame, and blocked it from running. But that made many sites unusable, and it didn't help: The browser still froze.

It turns out the culprit is not JavaScript but another technology used to make Web pages more interactive: Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash plug-in. It's the program-within-a-program that plays YouTube videos and those annoying "splash" pages that some sites employ to dazzle you with animations before letting you do anything useful on the site.

Flash is a tremendous resource hog in Firefox, eating up processor time to the point where there is nothing left for other programs. It does this even if you're not actively doing anything. Merely having a YouTube page open on your screen will suck power from your computer's central processing unit, or CPU. This is outrageous behaviour for a browser. It's my CPU and I want it back.

Looks like it's only really a problem if you have a lot of tabs open at once.

I installed the Flashblock add-on as soon as I read the review, I'll see how it goes.

Simon

My first thought was... why bother, we already have Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE...

Then I read the release comic, and it all made sense! Aha! A shift to a web-operating system.

Google Chrome

Originally Posted by LoveMyV8County

My first thought was... why bother, we already have Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE...

Then I read the release comic, and it all made sense! Aha! A shift to a web-operating system.

Google Chrome

Thanks, educational.

Cheers
Simon

Read the comic, liked the idea, tried the browser.

I like the minimal display, don't like the absence of lots of user options I'm used to on other browsers.

Compared to IE7 it's, well, very similar, looks similar, and loads pages in a way that reminds me of IE7. Everything seems to stop and wait for a page to load.

And memory hungry.

And no adblock.

And only offered an option to migrate bookmarks and passwords from IE not Firefox or anything else. Really seems like they are aiming at IE users and not on Firefox users.

I am running it on my P3 laptop, so not the optimum hardware.

Seems to me that it sacrifices a lot of speed and RAM for stability.

Think I'll wait for the next release.

I'm running it and I'm a fan
Seems to load a little quicker, and definitely copes with multiple tabs better than IE did on my work machine.

It is so fast. Usually I don't find web browsing slow but on car sales it can take ages and chrome just speeds ahead.

Is there a PDA version avialble ( eg to run on Windows Mobile ) ?

I find the PDA version of MS Explorer sucks bad.