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Google to Launch Webkit Based Web Browser Called 'Chrome'
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Oh God. I couldn't stand that episode. I think Merlin is one of the funniest people, but he kicked dirt at Chrome for ten minutes for seemingly no reason. I think he just doesn't trust Google, which is strange because he seems to really like Alcor who now works for google.
PS: unrelated: Google Mobile is the best app for the iPhone. I no longer need to worry about how slow address book and the phone app are, as google mobile brings up my contacts instantly! You can really see the quicksilver in the app, thanks to Alcor's involvement.
Looks like Google realised that the EULA was wrong (or backtracked after all the uproar) Ars Technica
Hey, Google didn't mention it, but they provide instructions to natively build and run Google Chrome on Intel Macs.
May make testing a bit easier for you.
May make testing a bit easier for you.
That Microsoft isn't including menus in it's applications means that it being standard isn't an argument against not using them. You also have to slam Apple in the same line for smashing the standard Windows UI with iTunes and especially Safari.
looks and sounds like they are just cobbling together features from existing browsers and not really adding anything new and original.
I'll give it a look when the Mac version comes out (if it is not already) but somehow I don't think it is going to blow me away
Seriously did you read the comic because it does has some very interesting innovative features
tracemonkey is prefed off in firefox nightly build. you need to open it first by toggle 'jit' related values in about:config. it will be about twice as fast as current speed.
for all other we quoted my brief review. i appreciated. stay tuned for my detailed review later !!!
Hey, whadaya know. I enabled it and this time I got a score of:
3177.6ms +/- 1.9%
That's with last night's nightly build. Good job Mozilla peeps!
Wow... optimization is not too good on Mac/PPC.
Total: 4949.4ms +/- 1.1%
That's on a G5 2.3 Ghz. The other scores came off a 2.8Ghz P4.
AND... webkit on the G5:
Total: 3079.0ms +/- 7.8%
I just downloaded it a few hours ago (posting this from it) and i have to say i REALLY like the interface its simple/clean. Not a fan of the blue browser header (reminds me of XP blue) and it doesnt seem to have a status bar which i like.
However its reasonably quick and usable, will be interesting to see how it matures going forward
However its reasonably quick and usable, will be interesting to see how it matures going forward
This article in Silicon Alley Insider says that Chrome already has more than 1% of the browser market and will most likely overtake Safari on the PC.
well, i guess you have the right to not trust my numbers, thats fine, but its really easy to prove me wrong anyway. You don trust my result on my machine? do it yourself! its not something so difficult that you can't try out anyway!
PS. as promised, for your viewing pleasure here is webkit 30653 (today) and tracemonkey/firefox 3.1 20080903051823 (today).
The race is so tight, I can't wait for safari 4 and firefox 3.1!
(still, do keep in mind as I mentioned before, js speed, as it is, doesn't deserve the hype its getting nowadays)
Nice harddrive name.
Here is the comparison on my iMac, they are basically the same. Would be interesting to see what chrome is like on the mac but that is not possible.
With it advertised on google's homepage now I can imagine it will rise quite high.
I have been using it on my windows PC and it has good crash recovery in regards to text/scroll/tabs/everything. It does freeze for a second or two quite often, although I do have a pretty crappy PC however Opera doesn't do that.
I'm just curious -- have you enabled TraceMonkey? Apparently you have to go into some preference on the about:config (and a quick google tells me the preference is javascript.options.jit.content).
I have no idea how it compares to Safari, but I'm just curious if you enabled it.
Chrome
I tried using Chrome on my laptop. Worked fine. You can't really say that it's light since it runs 2 or 3 separate background programs to support the opening of multiple tabs. But it's considerably lighter than firefox, and a bit faster too. Well, when they do start putting all the extensions on Chrome, maybe that's the time it will run slower.
I tried using Chrome on my laptop. Worked fine. You can't really say that it's light since it runs 2 or 3 separate background programs to support the opening of multiple tabs. But it's considerably lighter than firefox, and a bit faster too. Well, when they do start putting all the extensions on Chrome, maybe that's the time it will run slower.
thanks, the name is a common first name for hispanics, absolutely no religious meaning
I think after firefox 3.1, mozilla probably will stop PPC support soon.
yes, he did. AFAIK, tracemonkey is still working on some thing that supposed to improve more, but hey, its in the area that nobody can practically see the difference anymore..
thanks, the name is a common first name for hispanics, absolutely no religious meaning
Yeah a couple of my friends have it as middle names just didn't know which variant you were using
It is sad to see PPC support going because it still seems so recent but that is the way things are going. I'm just glad that I took the chance to move to intel when I did because I got the best iMac available (i.e no glossy screen
)Just to confirm clevin was right it is enabled.
According to the engineers at Google they are working on it but so far they are closer to the start than the finish and there is no expected date nor any predictions.
Currently there is no UI and the latest builds just compile the core components like WebKit and other sub projects. The problem is that the OS architecture of MacOSX and Linux is much different than Windows so they need to figure out how Chrome will adjust to this.
Source(s):
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-os-x
Currently there is no UI and the latest builds just compile the core components like WebKit and other sub projects. The problem is that the OS architecture of MacOSX and Linux is much different than Windows so they need to figure out how Chrome will adjust to this.
Source(s):
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-os-x
yeah I read it. even with all the "don't we sound impressive" tech talk bloat in the first 17 pages.
it's a good thing that comic was sent to a limited audience cause most folks wouldn't understand half of it. all they care about is if it works. and how.
and in the how is a lot of stuff that ain't nothing new.
about the only groovy new tricks they have done are the nine pages trick and putting the history lookup in their 'omnibox'. and we'll see how well those work in the end.
i give them points cause they are right about one thing. being a search engine company they have the means to find and test on tons of sites before we ever see the program. and that will likely help with debugging. but I reserve judgement until I can test the program myself and compare it to the others out there
