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Chrome for Mac Beta Nearly Matches Safari in JavaScript Benchmarking
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Article Link: Chrome for Mac Beta Nearly Matches Safari in JavaScript Benchmarking
I've been using Chrome now for a while, had the Devs build for a fair few months.
Why?
I was sick of Safari toasting my legs when it came to playing videos.
The plugin was a right CPU hog according to my Activity Monitor.
Shujin. Make it your default browser then in Chrome > Preferences.
...sigh.
Why?
I was sick of Safari toasting my legs when it came to playing videos.
The plugin was a right CPU hog according to my Activity Monitor.
Shujin. Make it your default browser then in Chrome > Preferences.
...sigh.
And what about Safari on Mac vs Chrome on Win? Or is that impossible to compare correctly?
By the way, it's in beta, so it could be a bit better/faster with the final release...
By the way, it's in beta, so it could be a bit better/faster with the final release...
This is about on par with the results I posted yesterday.
In a real world feel, Chrome definitely seems fast.
In a real world feel, Chrome definitely seems fast.
A good effort by Google, but it's not gonna replace Safari on my Mac for now...independent processes are neat and might be useful for Flash crap-ridden sites, though...
As for the incognito thing, Safari's private browsing is still more practical...why doesn't Google simply enable a preference to have incognito mode set permanently?
Chrome actually does a couple of other tricks to make it actually faster when browsing webpages, like DNS pre-fetching for links on a page.
Chrome is more of a novelty for Windows users, which are used to crappy browsers such as IE...it adds little real value over Safari for Mac, which is still the fastest browser on Earth.
This doesn't take into account the horrible sluggishness of Safari's interface, nor is it representative of Safari's ludicrous memory usage. To date, I've never seen Chrome or Firefox use over 1GB RAM, but Safari is atrocious.
Honestly, just look at this memory usage from a WebKit nightly. How is this acceptable?
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Honestly, just look at this memory usage from a WebKit nightly. How is this acceptable?
Install ClickToFlash. My fans rarely kick on when I watch YouTube videos in QuickTime.
Of course Chrome for Windows is the fastest, the Windows version of Safari sucks. Like OS, like browser.
CMD-Z?
CMD-Z?
although cmd-z does the job
(honestly, I'm not sure if it's a default command or came with glims) there are plenty of missing 'peanuts' which makes you wonder if apple engineers are really focused on the customer's needs if every amateur developer can build an addon which enables such features, why does apple refuse to do so??How is Chrome on Windows a novelty!? I use Safari on Mac and Chrome on Windows everyday, I love them both, but for me Chrome on Windows is fast than Safari on a Mac, both do the job well though.
AnDy
It's not a huge difference, really. On my iMac, Safari scores 299ms, Chromium scores around 330ms. I notice more slowdown from Safari's UI than I notice from Chrome's marginally slower JavaScript performance.
I haven't installed the beta yet, but I did test the developer release. The speed is negligible and they both use Webkit so the rendering is a push. I just prefer Safari's UI. Maybe Chrome will grow on me, but it just seems like the buttons and icons are a little clumpy.
It's a big deal for ordinary Windows users who know no better than IE...we Mac users have had Safari since the very beginning, which has ALWAYS been the fastest browser that exists...that's all.