Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent

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by davecardwell • 17 years ago

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truebosko• 17 years ago

I love Chrome. I now use it exclusively on Windows at work because Firefox is just so much slower compared to it. At home on Ubuntu, I use the Chromium daily builds which are now very stable and using --enable-plugins for Flash is becoming more stable every week.

This is just so great for browsers in general. As we all know, competition just makes everything better. I'm glad how Chromium has grown and I look forward to see how the other browsers begin innovating.

windsurfer• 17 years ago

I love chrome, but it just can't manage tabs the way the Tree Style Tabs extension can.

Herring• 17 years ago

I'd add autopager & firegestures to that. I doubt I'll ever use a different browser.

mbreese• 17 years ago

I've used the Tree Style Tabs on Firefox, and I can say that I actually prefer the way Chrome does it. With Chrome, it looks like a standard list of tabs, but behind the scenes, it's a tree.

To each their own...

arthurk• 17 years ago

The author compares the JavaScript performance of a Chromium nightly build with Safari 4.0 based solely on the SunSpider benchmark.

Lousy article behind a sensationalist title.

davecardwell• 17 years ago

Because I’ve used Firefox and various add-ons at work for so frequently and for so long I think Chrome is going to take some getting used to, but from what I’ve seen so far it’s well worth the effort.

Firefox has served me well over the last few years but seems to grow ever-slower on my Macbook while playing with Chromium is like a breath of fresh air.

Next week I’m going to try using the built-in Developer Tools to see how they stack up against Firebug, but what I’ve seen thus far has been pretty encouraging.

blasdel2• 17 years ago

Safari's Web Inspector (used verbatim in Chrome) is still missing a few features vs. Firebug (mostly with editing, and integration with webapp frameworks), but it's STABLE, and fully integrated.

Firebug crashes constantly, is unusable with many sites, and is never quite in sync with Mozilla's development plans. Mozilla blew it big time promoting their completely useless "Web Developer" extension for years (even shipping it in the installer), and completely ignoring Firebug.

electronslave• 17 years ago

Read the Update: at the bottom, and you'll get a feel for the technical / journalistic aptitude of the writer.

It really smacks of Mike Angelo's noisemaking at the early part of the decade: http://everything2.com/title/MozillaQuest

Edit: I really miss the tech-meets-timecube aspect of that site.

rms• 17 years ago

After using Firefox 3 on Linux since the alpha, Chromium has reminded me what it is like to use a browser where all local operations are instantaneous. I just wonder how low the hardware requirements for Chrome OS will be.

krying_krab• 17 years ago

Faster than Opera too?

Edit: Yes, at least the Javascript engine is significantly faster on this benchmark.

On Chrome 2.0.172.39 on Windows I scored 1051.2 ms, on Firefox I scored 4633.8 ms, and on Opera I scored 6230.2 ms.

chrischen6• 17 years ago

I did a sunspider benchmark of safari and firefox (forgot which version, but I did it recently with the latest versions of both) and their speeds were almost identical.

petsos• 17 years ago

So?

chrischen6• 17 years ago

Well safari kept saying how it was the fastest browser around.

chrischen6• 17 years ago

Safari should just take the V8 engine.

snprbob86• 17 years ago

I'm enjoying the constant competition. I'd like to see them continue to push the envelope.

chrischen6• 17 years ago

The whole benefit of open source is so that stuff can be openly improved. If Chrome has a better javascript engine, then why not firefox and safari adopt it? They could always improve the Chrome version afterwards anyways (I'm assuming the V8 engine is indeed better). There really are only two browsers duking it out, Internet Explorer and the open source browser. Why? Because open source has no barriers to adopting it's own technology and can be considered one entity in theory. If one javascript engine is clearly superior why waste effort developing seperate open source implementations? It's not like the user interface where someone might prefer the style of firefox's javascript rendering over Chrome's. Competition even in open source is natural and should be encouraged, but they don't have to necessarily compete to improve. They can build on top of each other.

calambrac• 17 years ago

Why? The two projects have been swapping the performance lead back and forth since the start of this current period of insane browser development, and it would be an enormous undertaking to make the switch.

chrischen6• 17 years ago

Ok, then understandably they shouldn't. But I wandered off and argued another point: why open source should take the best and incorporate it.

herf• 17 years ago

Scrolling on Chrome is still really slow compared to Safari (uses 100% cpu!) Guess this test doesn't do any of that.

lucraft• 17 years ago

If it's ok with you, I'm going to go ahead and mentally refer to it as Google Chrome 0.4.

Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent

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