Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

They are using a brand new JavaScript engine (V8) that is supposed to be faster. It sounds like they hired some outsiders to develop it as open source.

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Thomas Harte

Member #33

April 2000

WebKit already had a much faster but not yet used in a shipping browser JavaScript engine, it's apparently been in the Safari 4 nightlies. I wonder if it's the same one...

EDIT: Actually it looks like Chrome will be a world-changing browser. In that:

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It'll merge Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany and Holland.

EDIT2: I mean, for crying out loud, the character is even meant to be pointing at Denmark.

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Kibiz0r

Member #6,203

September 2005

What about Benmark?

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Thomas Harte

Member #33

April 2000

Quote:

What about Benmark?

That's not on the map either!

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

Matthew Leverton said:

They are using a brand new JavaScript engine (V8) that is supposed to be faster. It sounds like they hired some outsiders to develop it as open source.

AFAIK, the V8 JavaScript engine (i.e. virtual machine) was developed by a team in Denmark which I assume is part of Google. Google should own the engine, but I think is open sourcing everything related to Google Chrome (including the JavaScript engine). Apparently V8 interprets the JavaScript and turns it into machine code for optimal performance. They're also keeping better track of pointers, apparently, so garbage collection is supposed to be much more precise. I'm excited to try the beta, which I guess is supposed to be released today (though the original release date was seemingly set for tomorrow).

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BAF

Member #2,981

December 2002

What about Aurora.... that new Mozilla thing announced a while back?

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Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

That video is worse than the comic. :-X

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BAF

Member #2,981

December 2002

I never actually watched it, I just remember seeing that hyped just as much as Chrome is being hyped now.

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Yeah, I'm pretty cynical about Google Chrome as well. V8 looks cool, but it remains to be seen whether or not they should have just helped out on Tamarin.

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Mark Oates

Member #1,146

March 2001

It seems to me that browsers have the potential to become the next layer on the OS

kernel
OS
browser
applications

essentially it'll be like finder or explorer, integrated to the web.

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Vanneto

Member #8,643

May 2007

Only idiots would put their files/programs/anything on the web. But I guess thats not such a bad idea, as we have established long ago that the world consists out of 90% idiots.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

The Chrome beta is released for Windows!!! (Google Chrome)

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Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

Slow. I installed it minutes ago.

Yeah, it's pretty fast. Has the same rendering bugs as Safari.

Definitely not BAF proof as the tabs turn very small.

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ReyBrujo

Moderator

January 2001

It is on the front page of newspapers today down here. Personally I am pretty happy with F3 regardless of a few issues and random crashes, and don't plan on changing to another unless there is really a huge difference (like when I switched from Netscape to Internet Explorer, or from IE to Firefox). It is just a way to get themselves some market share (like what they did with Netcraft, where they got their services to be recognized as their own web server instead of being counted as Apache (and chipping away like 5% from Apache market share).

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BAF

Member #2,981

December 2002

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Definitely not BAF proof as the tabs turn very small.

Hah, I've been getting better on that. I only have maybe 10 tabs open at the moment.

/me runs off to download Chrome and play around with it.

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CGamesPlay

Member #2,559

July 2002

Hmm, somebody try fork bombing the system by creating lots of popups that create new popups.

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Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

My initial thought is that it's what Safari for Windows should have been: same renderer, but with a native Windows look (including fonts).

The winner here? Safari. People who would never check it out will make sure their pages run on Google Chrome. Now they'll accidentally support Safari too.

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ReyBrujo

Moderator

January 2001

Just saw your signature, CGP, did you go to PAX?

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

/first-post-from-google-chrome
You can certainly see that it's still an early beta release. It's missing a lot of convenient UI stuff and there isn't a whole lot of configuration options. Still, I really like the ideas Google has presented. I expect that in time it can catch up to and surpass Firefox.

/offtopic

ReyBrujo said:

Just saw your signature, CGP, did you go to PAX?

I'm still not sure what that was, but saw X-Play (I think) coverage of it before the weekend. Indie developers were being recognized. Coolness.

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ReyBrujo

Moderator

January 2001

Does Chrome support Firefox extensions? Firefox settings import? Firefox anything?

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Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

Imports FF settings, but that's it.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

Oooh, the tabs are so smooth when dragged!

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MiquelFire

Member #3,110

January 2003

Dear Google, if you're going to highlight the domain, don't include the subdomain. That is something IE8 does better (Can't remember if that was in Beta 1 or not).

I'm not liking the new tab page.

I do like the built-in Firebug like window however. Maybe this will give me a reason to uninstall Safari? Meh, I don't have a Mac, so I'll keep it for the Mac rendering style (fonts and buttons).

[edit] My mind skipped the sub in subdomain.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

I don't really like the lack of a static status bar. :-/ The replacement is a little too slow to appear.

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MiquelFire

Member #3,110

January 2003

A bit scary that you can see the memory sizes of your other browsers within Chrome...

Not sure if the javascript engine being fast is really true or not (or if it's the test case being slow to display changes to the screen) as I loaded up Google Maps and just double clicked on a certain location until the city dots disappeared in all five browsers have I on my machine. Chrome wasn't smooth. Anyone know of a nice JS page to test on that doesn't require a login?

[edit] Found this site and here are some test results:
Firefox 3.0.1: 673 ms
Chrome: 587 ms
IE7: 1563 ms
Safari: 312 ms (Date object 0... I think that broke it slightly)
Opera: 319 ms

With that test, Safari is the fastest, but when you consider it may have skipped a section of the test, then Opera is the fastest.