New Chrome Beta supposedly fast

What do you think?

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Chrome for Linux coming

The latest version is 2.0.170.0 which is a developer update. I think its newer than this beta.

 

I think that Safari is getting on their nerves.

cheers ...

 

I always have my browser maximized...when you do that drag tab thing, it just covers half the screen but doesn't resize the original tab to half screen.
It seems faster too.

 

I'm interested in the Linux version. Google vs Mozilla? who do you think is going to come out on top in the end?

 

Supposedly fast? Mine's already fast! Chrome rocks

 

Cheers for links, I'll give it a try on the desktop tomorrow. seems to be a lot faster than current chrome looking at the benchmarks.

 

Chrome is already blazingly fast, mostly due to true multi-threading and JS engine improvements.
However competitors are already catching up, safari will be at the same speeds shortly, as will firefox, so chrome has to jump ahead.
As for Internet explorer.. oh well...

 

i didnt liek it it wasnt fast at all and i jsut couldnt quite get the hang of it it stayed on ym computer all of 2 minutes if that

 

Lol....if Chrome isn't "fast" to you, idk what is.
Please clean up your typing and your grammar.

 

Ill stick to firefox.

Speed of connection is more important than speed of browser.

 

Agreed. I have been on Chrome since like November. I take every update, even the one that had the red square in the corner by the window buttons...lol...I'm a die hard fan, have never had such a great net experience. I really haven't had it crash many times, maybe three or four in 6 months...not bad...IE hangs like twice a day, on average...

Edit: This version does seem snappier than .168 did...could just be me, though...wanting it to be faster...

Double edit: No, it really is faster...they made a good thing better, apparently...

 

Wow, this makes a massive difference. My Chrome was way outdated (.159) and this is easily twice as smooth.

 

Safari 4 is nothing but Chrome on a Mac (that's what I like to call it). If someone is copying the other this time, it's Apple copying Google. I wounder if MS did that. In the end, they all steal/take ideas from each other. I know, someone out there probably wants to shoot me for saying that

 

No, it's true. While not exactly the same, Windows and Apple's basic OSs are the same THEORY (friendly GUI)...and Windows did it first...some will say that Apple did it better, but meh...they both have flaws...if they were perfect then they would never develop new ones, cause the old ones would already be Utopian-esque (the perfect os...*dreams*)...

Although, hasn't Safari been around for some years??/

 

You cease to mention Chrome's rendering engine is Webkit, which Safari had first. But whatever, Webkit is open source. Anyways, every major browser is stealing or developing similar features and ideas from each other in order to enhance their own browser.

 

well, stealing some features is one thing. but more or less just taking exactly the chrome layout, add some fancy uhh-apple-shinyness around it, is not exactly a feature thing. it's a full application copy. besides being a quite ugly copy

on the other hand, i start to dislike applications that span multiple processes. i like multithreaded applications, i like the security of each tab by doing processes.
what i don't like, is, if the browser messes up really bad, you may be out of luck killing it. i once got chrome span processes infinitely, resulting in an os with thousands of processes in seconds. result: forced hard reset.
same happened once in ie8 beta. result: forced hard reset. it even resulted in a non-bootable and non-repairable os in the end. had to restore from home-server-backup.

i'd like to have it with some form of process-hirarchie. so that "killing the browser window" will still kill all the processes and stop the spawning.

so i'm not entierly for those new browser designs. i prefer to be in the world where a browser is just like a pdf reader: a display for documents

(i don't like web-apps in general that much anyways.. too much taking away from our control nowadays)

but i like how everyone improves in performance.

 

Speed of connection, how do you mean?

 

Chrome engine is based on the Webkit (Apple) and many of Firefox components - this is a stated fact and recognised by the developers of Chrome.

There is NO COPYING from each other as they would use any OPEN SOURCE components they can find and cooperate, to better their product.

The race to a faster and secure browser is always on for the market share.

cheers ...

 

Though Safari has all the eye candy, Chrome still does the job with nice clean (simple) graphics. I love how normal mode is like the equivalent of full screen firefox.

Google, please let us customize the top sites page more!

 

The problem with Safari or Chrome, is until i have extensions, like NoScript and AdBlock Plus, than i don't care how much faster is, because faster spyware, popups and adverts are not exactly something that excites me.

In the case of google and Chrome you have to wonder if they would ever want user extensions like Adblock Plus, considering this would be somewhat of a conflict of interest for their advertising business.

Still it's good to see some speedups and performance, should keep the others pushing for similar goals.

 

TBH, I haven't experienced any problems with any of those. Maybe I just don't go to websites where they are prevalent...

All I have gotten from Chrome is a simple interface, a combo search/address bar (my fav), and more screen estate when browsing. The estate is what I fell for first, as I was using a netbook with a 9 inch screen and needed all the help I could get. Then I fell for the rest of the features and the speed.

What first led me to Chrome was a distaste for Firefox, and the security issues that IE was having. (Firefox and my school's website don't get along)...

 

Copying the interface and every feature the other has is what I'm talking about, sir.

Just take a look, tabs and buttons are all in the same place. Only difference is Apple seem to have got the tab thing all wrong. Chrome is much cleaner.





They both don't have loading bars, instead they have a circle that goes around.

Here is Safari loading...



Now Chrome loading with its blue thing




This is how they both look when opening a new tab (The feature was originally in Opera)





Apple also claims that Safari is the first browser with movable tabs

Source: http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
You'll find a lot more Apple BS on that page, but I like to highlight this

As far as I know, Firefox just needed an extension to do that. Once you installed that extension you'll get movable tabs. I discovered that like 3 years. The feature probably has been there longer

Chrome has the feature built in since its beta.

So, at least Safari is not first, that is for sure.

By the way, I am a Firefox user. My point is, if Microsoft did that (take a feature from Apple's OS for example, or just take features from Safari to IE), it would have been a huge deal that the whole media would take about. I don't hate Apple and I don't like Microsoft. I love good products! and hate BS.

Thank you.

 

Chrome has talked about ABP eventually for Chrome and other popular FF extensions. Also, the latest beta of Chrome can do user scripts which is a step closer to add-on support.

 

I'm still interested how google reacts about an adblock for it's own browser, made to show the web with the google-ads everywhere. they won't like that, do they?
do they want to ban it from the web, then? censuring in their own search? it would be fun.

 

As Im typing this, I am currently using the new Chrome beta. Its definitly faster than before, which surprised me. I didnt think it could get any faster!

 

Lol im with you i am also in Chrome Beta as well. It feels quite a bit faster then firefox especially searches in anything. I notice even sites like NBA.com load faster.

 

Yeah, flash based sites load very fast, which is so important. I dont really understand the need for firefox and some of the extensions. Ad Block, for example. I never get ads that distract me at all. Guess Im lucky with the sites I frequent.

 

use adblock for a while and then go back to non-adblocked web and believe me, every page distracts and annoys you

 

Used to use Firefox with Ad-Block. Sure it blocked banners ads and whatnot, but wasnt a big deal. Full page ads are annoying though.

 

which are blocked, too

i mostly dislike the square-ads in articles. be it anandtech articles or others. it just irritates me very much when reading.

and mostly, flash ads are (where) very demanding for my core2duo at 1.2ghz so it turned the fan on when there was one. not that fun for reading while the fan spins.

 

Nice! I'm really liking Chrome. It's a fast no-nonsense browser. IE just seems to take forever to load pages and respond to requests. Of course IE is still the standard, and have to use that for things like my bank. Otherwise Chrome is my browser of choice.

 

Yes, i also didn't get any of the extensions in my browsers i noticed that Youtube as well is substantially faster but as you said Flash based there is a huge difference. NBR's video section is looking good as well.

HT my browser of choice as well