Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta

[shawnce]

Yes but are you running on an 8 core system? This is where Chrome has the advantage. It runs each tab in it's own process which then can run on it's own CPU core. If you have a bunch of web apps all running at once and had a multi-core computer Chrome would win by a huge margin. THIS is why Google developed Chrome. They know that soon everyone will have 4-core CPUs and they hope everyone will want to rn their web apps

Safari is multi-threaded as may even be using GCD on Snow Leopard. You don't need multiple processes to leverage multiple cores. Note inter-process communication overhead, etc. can easily make multi-process implementations slower then equivalent multi-threaded ones.

Google went the multi-process path to improve on security (isolate pages in tabs from each other) and resiliency (render crash in one tab doesn't bring down all tabs). Safari also uses additional processes for plugins like Flash (at least on Snow Leopard) to improve resiliency of the browser (plugin crash doesn't kill the browser).

 

[Povilas]

Scrolling is better in Safari. On my cuurent setup Safari also uses less RAM and CPU. Speed is about the same for both Safari and Chrome. Chrome still needs a lot of polishing.

 

[Macinposh]

Hmm.


-Looks like it is from 1997.
-No pinch zoom on webpages.
-Doesnt open certain webpages.
-Running youtube ends up consming 120-180(!)% when safari with the beta flash goes around 50-80%.
-Looks like it is from 1997.



Have to check it out though,competition is usually good.

 

[mark88]

Would be so much better if it properly imported all my saved username and passwords. Having to enter all the info for every site I'm a member on is a big pain

 

[vincentchan]

Nothing can replace Top Sites (Visualized RSS Reader)

 

[djellison]

I've been waiting and waiting for this - hoping it would be as good under OSX as it is on Windows. And it is. SO much faster than Safari for me - I'm very very very happy.

Hell - just the ability to highlight text and have it bring up a google search for that text in a new tab is brilliant. Having it default to google UK is even better.

Great news.

 

[atticus18244fsa]

I started using Stainless on top of Firefox and Safari thanks to someones suggestion on here. Very impressed with it. Chrome seems to be about the same speed as that.

 

[hermes369]

Weird text.

I'm getting some strange characters. I am probably doing something wrong. I get this: # or similar. If I copy and paste the characters the expected characters are displayed correctly. Weird.

 

[lex750]

Yeah I am usually amazed at how ugly Opera is but to each their own.

Ugly? Really? Maybe you should try it before you make an uneducated comment. If you want a slow, memory and cpu hogging browser that, "looks pretty", well to each their own.

PS. Picture of super fast, low resource user, but quite "ugly" Opera enclosed.

 

[ChazUK]

I just got a 2nd email saying that the Linux beta is out too!

Hello everybody out there using Linux -

Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a speedy, stable browser. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome team:

60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors

Thanks for waiting and we hope that you enjoy using Google Chrome!

Google Chrome Team
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/w00t.html

I've been using the developer builds on Ubuntu for a while but this is welcome too.

 

[nclarkn]

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[shawnce]

PS. Picture of super fast, low resource user, but quite "ugly" Opera enclosed.

It looks like 10.10 has cleaned up many of the issue I saw in 10.00 in the main page window. It still uses some "incorrect" layout in preferences (etc.) and presents, on average, to many controls to users by default. I also find it slower on JavaScript heavier pages then Safari at this time.

 

[HLdan]

Meh, Chrome isn't ready for the Mac yet. It's bad enough Google made us wait a year or so before making a Mac version, that in itself makes me not want to support Google. This beta version is mediocre at best. Safari FTW.

 

[No1451]

Neat, I've been using the Chromium releases for a while now(Safari doesn't behave correctly on my machine for whatever reason), so not even sure if I'll use this.


Here's hoping they fixed up the ugly scrolling issues.

 

[Bennieboy©]

just downloaded it, looks good so far, activity monitor says it hardly uses anything so, will have to see what it likes and what it dont

 

[NewGenAdam]

It's a browser. Who cares? It's one step removed from another iPhone flashlight app, IMHO.

I laugh that you care enough to comment.
Those who are more discerning realise the distinctions between different browsers.
For those who don't, ignorance is bliss!
x

 

[LastZion]

same version as older beta? nothing new here?

 

[lex750]

It looks like 10.10 has cleaned up many of the issue I saw in 10.00 in the main page window. It still uses some "incorrect" layout in preferences (etc.) and presents, on average, to many controls to users by default. I also find it slower on JavaScript heavier pages then Safari at this time.

Sure, now the issue is not that it is "ugly", it's that it's "slower on JavaScript". Right. I'm seriously doubting you have even used Opera at all, because if you had you would have know the GUI was changed a while ago. I have no issues with JavaScript at all, but then again I'm not looking to create one.

 

[denisb1]

Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta

Didn't go through all the posts to see if I'm being redundant but here goes.
Google Chrome is fast, can't customize toolbars and can't use "1Password"

 

[deanburchell]

Font weirdness

I'm getting some strange characters. I am probably doing something wrong. I get this: # or similar. If I copy and paste the characters the expected characters are displayed correctly. Weird.

I too am getting a text rendering problem with several sites. Every character replaced with an "A" icon.

Anyone else? I am using FontAgent Pro on 10.6.2

 

[Xenu007]

Can't choose mail client in Chrome preferences

Chrome preferences doesn't let you designate a mail client for Chrome.

And the Chrome dock icon looks like some primary color child's toy.

 

[mwjd299]

Another reason I had to buy another computer. Leopard or Snow Leopard and Intel only. Nothing runs on PPC anymore. The new iMac is coming tommorrow.:

 

[lex750]

Nothing runs on PPC anymore.

Haven't I told you a million times not to exaggerate?

 

[mhdena]

I have not used Safari on a regular basis in a year or so, using FireFox.

I'm surprised more aren't.

 

[Jollins]

Ugly? Really? Maybe you should try it before you make an uneducated comment. If you want a slow, memory and cpu hogging browser that, "looks pretty", well to each their own.

PS. Picture of super fast, low resource user, but quite "ugly" Opera enclosed.

Sorry, but that looks pretty ugly to me. Also, the screenshot doesn't quite do the UI justice (that's not a compliment). When I actually tried using it, it just felt like a windows app skinned to be a mac app.