Not a busy day, going to try Chrome for a day

leppie

Seeing they just release version 6, I thought I'll take it for a spin. So far, it feels a lot faster than FF 3.6.

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I just updated mine, and; It does seem zippier The colour scheme has changed slightly The menus have been changed There are new cut copy paste and zoom + - and full screen menus items. The developer tools now page dock than float as default. Don't know what else yet, that is just the first couple of minutes playing........

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phannon86

This is my second time using Chrome for an extended period (been a few months now), and I've felt no urge to return to Firefox at all this time. Main reason I left Firefox was because it's so damn slow to get going, and new tabs seemed to be a source of constant struggle. Chrome flies along quite happily :)

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Electron Shepherd

leppie wrote:

So far, it feels a lot faster than FF 3.6.

Is the speed really that significant? Given the speed of modern processors vs the speed of modern networks, does it make a difference? I've just posted a reply to DD's message about his network problems, and the CP web server took best part of 15 seconds to accept it. It always seems to me that when dealing with internet-based web servers, network speed and latency, and web server performance, are the limiting factors, not rendering speed. For a corprorate intranet, with a litte-used web server on a 10GB backbone, I can see it might make a difference. As an aside (and this isn't "browser bashing", just my view as a software developer), this page makes me chuckle: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/more/features.html[^] It says: "Chrome is built for stability. If an individual tab freezes or crashes, the other tabs are unaffected." Err, no. If it was really built for stability, it wouldn't crash or freeze in the first place.

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Rage

phannon86 wrote:

it's so damn slow to get going

Yes, I noticed that as well. I can even say, it has become unbelievably slow, and I hate it when an app does something in the background making everything else hang, and you don't know what it does.

CPallini

Now, I'm curious to try it. :)

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CPallini wrote:

Now, I'm curious to try it.

That has got a lot of people into a lot of trouble before now!

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NormDroid

leppie wrote:

I thought I'll take it for a spin

Try not to crash.

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Niklas L

Electron Shepherd wrote:

Err, no. If it was really built for stability, it wouldn't crash or freeze in the first place.

Good point!

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Yusuf

leppie wrote:

So far, it feels a lot faster than FF 3.6.

I have ditched FF and never looked back again. Even the latest Opera seems much faster than FF :( Primary Browsers as of lately in descending orders Chrome Opera IE FF

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Mark_Wallace

Electron Shepherd wrote:

It says: "Chrome is built for stability. If an individual tab freezes or crashes, the other tabs are unaffected."

` Wasn't there always the option to start IE windows as a separate process? I'm pretty sure there was, and I know I enabled it from the first moment that I was aware of it.

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rastaVnuce

Electron Shepherd wrote:

Err, no. If it was really built for stability, it wouldn't crash or freeze in the first place.

It's not always the browser's fault for crashing. Any plugin (i.e. Flash) might be the reason.

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Electron Shepherd

No idea. As I said, I'm not "browser bashing", or saying one is better than another.

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Electron Shepherd wrote:

Is the speed really that significant?

Yes. 2 minutes from firing up the browser to the point I actually _can_ write an url is about 1.99min too much. After that, you are right, it does not matter that much.

Kunal Chowdhury IN

Chrome is really very fast, at least for the Google sites... I liked the new UI of FF4, but seems it's not as fast as Chrome... :(

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leppie

KunalChowdhury wrote:

I liked the new UI of FF4

I couldn't stand all those taskbar 'windows'...

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