Chrome

It's okay.. Still a ways to go.

UI is nice but the thing uses insane amounts of memory, makes firefox look like notepad. It uses the process per tab thing but they put plugins in their own process that's shared between all tabs (e.g. a flash process). Only problem is that said process will just grow and grow in memory footprint, and it won't be recycled until you have no tabs with flash open. Yesterday after having opened gamevideos.com and youtube the flash process was sucking up 80mb memory. That's more than my entire firefox which had been running for a couple days.

Nice for a first release though. The renderer is pretty awesome, and javascript very fast. Anything that'll decrease IE marketshare is good. Need some key addons and fixage of that plugin process thing and things should get very interesting.

<Bill_> it really, really hurts to say this
<Bill_> really
<Bill_> but prencher, you were right

It is precisely lack of bias that makes anything decreasing IE marketshare a good thing. Competition forces everybody to improve their standards compliance. Microsoft happens to be notoriously bad at properly implementing the different specifications, or extending them in incompatible ways. I honestly don't give a flying fuck what browser people use, I only care that they follow the standards so I can spend my time designing sites, not my time creating workarounds for browsers that don't follow them.

Your attempts at trolling are as always as pathetic as they are uninformed. Have a nice day.

<Bill_> it really, really hurts to say this
<Bill_> really
<Bill_> but prencher, you were right

What a mature thread.

Anyhoo, I've been using Chrome for almost an entire day now - after years of IE it's nice to have a browser which won't take 1.2GB of memory if I leave it on for a few days (I swear I got IE7 to that amount). And I find FF slow and uncomfortable, so don't start on that.
The interface is alright, although I wish I had more options... can't press the middle button for scrolling like in IE, which is disappointing, and there is no Back/ Forward menu... I like the bookmarks toolbar a lot, however, particularly the fact you can put folder on it.
Another thing that bothered me is that it failed to properly import my bookmarks form IE. It claimed to, but it got less than 1/3 of them.
But for a first beta release I think it's great. I have no doubt that better customization will become available soon enough.

Now we only have to worry about the fact that Google apparently has the right to use any information that goes through the browser.....

That sounds incredibly shady.

a "comedy" site only at least IMO the humor is worthless but to each his own

1) if I hear anyone say "finally something I can use as an alternative to IE" (magis) I will scream and rip their left leg off. It is so slow and frustrating to get people to help themselves by using firefox, and now google comes out with their shiny new toy and everyone jumps on the bandwagon before you can say "give me your leg".

2) I agree with Thomas on the competition thing. People liking Chrome isn't a bad thing, competition is good, both for firefox and for IE. As it happens, IE is pretty shitty, so it definately needs some competition, and fast. Have you heard anything about the new IE8? Consumes more resources than an entire windows XP system. WTF?

3) I think I'm going to hold off on getting chrome for now. I expected google to come out with a browser and for everyone to say "holy shit this is so good it makes everything so much better" not "hmm this is sorta cool I guess".

Last edited by Killgore9998 (2008-09-04 12:50)