Google Chrome

[DonkeyOte]

Yowzers... anyone using Google Chrome as yet ? Seems super fast compared to Firefox... would appear their (Google) multi threading approach does the trick -- the future me thinks...

 

[Richard Schollar]

I'm going to give it a try as soon as I am able. I am excited by the prospect of a very fast browser. It will be interesting to see how it compares to IE8 when that is released.

 

[SydneyGeek]

I'm going to give it a go too. I am currently finding that F3.01 is buggy, and crashes on my PC (running Vista Business). Also, it's a memory hog. I went behind the scenes and it was using about 100 MB! IE 7 was around 70 -- so much for lean, mean open source

Update -- just installed it. Quick and snappy! I'm going to check out the feature set...

Denis

 

[Andrew Fergus]

I'm trying Google Chrome right now for the first time. It is pretty quick - probably because it hasn't been loaded up with excessive cookies by all the websites I visit.....

I'm not sure what is up with FireFox - I have been using it for a long time and the latest version seems to run really slowly (mine also uses about 100MB Denis, Chrome is 31MB) and a couple of things aren't working as they should or did.......it's a shame because FF has been so good for so long.

Chrome seems to have the occasional issue with going back a page (using the back button) and I can't import my favourites directly from FF (and it thinks favourites is spelled incorrectly despite downloading the UK English version).....I will give it a spin and see what happens.

Andrew

P.S. Some things aren't intuitive - for instance, I have worked out how to add a bookmark/favourite, and I get a favourites bar when I open a new tab, but as soon as I navigate to a webpage, the toolbar disappears - must be an option somewhere, but that is a strange default behaviour.....

 

[Stormseed]

Seems super fast compared to Firefox... would appear their (Google) multi threading approach does the trick -- the future me thinks...

I am excited by the prospect of a very fast browser

Guys, I am missing something here !! What do you mean by *FAST BROWSERS* ? It is the ISP bandwidth which is responsible for connection speeds, I reckon.

How can browsers control the speed ? Sure, they can handle the surfing activity effectively and that is where we compare browsers for either ones which are *handy* but controlling connection speeds - sounds greek to me

 

[SydneyGeek]

It comes down, among other things, to the speed of the rendering engine. Just did a comparison loading a large, data and graphics-heavy page in FF3 and Chrome; I used smh.com.au as a test. Chrome displays the page faster, not only on first load but when you return to the page from elsewhere on the site.
I agree -- ISP and connection speed are crucial but if you have a fast connection, the performance of the browser is relevant (it may even be relevant on a slow connection but I can't test that).

Denis

 

[pgc01]

Hi

I'm testing Chrome and it seems faster. I'm using Vista.

I had, however, problems with the installation.

I did what I always do when installing an application. I logged on to the Manager area and installed Chrome. Everything seemed OK and so I logged off and logged on to my user area. No sign of Chrome!!! Not even in the Program Files folder.


I had to install the program again, this time directly from the user area (against my rules). Now it works fine, but must I install it from each user's area? Seems odd.

Maybe I missed some installation option?

 

[kgkev]

I've been running IE8 for a few weeks and although thats still in Beta as well haven't noticed any real improvements.

Some site do screw up in IE8 though so I do have to occasionally "emulate IE7"

Gonna give Chrome a try now.

I logged on to the Manager area and installed Chrome

does right click>run as administrator not have the same effect?

 

[kgkev]

downloaded, installed and tested in 5 minutes - Easy and painless.

And your right it is quick. I was thinking along the lines of stormseeds post - but it is quicker. and my connection at the moment is across a office network on a 2MB/s broadband line.

Gonna install this at home now and scrap IE.

Anyone know how secure it is though? Am I ok to logon to my bank from this browser?

also didn't import my favourites from IE7

 

[DonkeyOte]

I don't know much about security side of things... I've always preferred FF to IE on that basis though...

From what I read I believe Chrome is designed such that it multi threads so can handle server side & client side scripting more efficiently than normal... they released a "comic book" of their plans (as only Google could) -- not a bad read...

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html