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New Google Chrome Beta Gains Integrated Flash Plug-In, Speed Increases
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No joke.
"So it's not so much lab coats, it's about having fun, then, and blowing things up, and stuff."
"There is nothing that can't be solved by the use of high explosives."
Why strive for impartial results when you can justify hours of employment 'in house?'
Seems to have been overlooked here.
I didn't even know there was an official release for the 1st version.
lol
Yeah, it took them ages to get the Mac/Linux versions... Or at least it felt like ages.
My personal experience is that Chrome is significantly the fastest browser on any Windows PC, but that Safari is just as fast or maybe slightly faster on a Mac.
Chrome is the browser of choice for PCs in most cases, but the choice on a Mac is not so clear.
You know... I think its annoying to hear someone say "Why can [my favorite company] do this?" regardless of which company it is. Just accept that the world is full of bright, wonderfully creative people that work at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and a myriad of other small software development groups (like Panic). Why...? Because they're not Gods. We're all mortal, and coolness comes from all sectors in a free market. The moment that stops being the case, we're ALL SCREWED. And don't forget it.
~ CB
They can spend a million bucks on making TV commercials for Chrome like Apple and MS and other companies do with their own products, or they can spend a million bucks making a promotional video to do the same thing.
TV commercials are probably better for getting people to buy products that cost money, this way is probably better to get people to try products that are free. Either way, it's all just million dollar advertising. Those guys in the video were just filming an ad.
And either way, I want to stop using Google search. I liked the internet better before Google started controlling what everyone was looking at. It's way too manipulated and I'm tired of cnet and the other regulars coming up top on every damn search. I want to be able to find obscure personal websites by people who really care about their unique or obscure subjects that maybe only get 5 hits a month like I used to be able to. Google has been instrumental in the destruction of the small websites and the corporatisation of the internet into the general bumpf of now what is amounting to commercial television compared to public service broadcasting.
I really miss the pre-Google internet. Can anyone recommend an alternative search engine to me that doesn't work on page popularity or linkage? Bing works the same way doesn't it? Maybe I should Google it...
You are logged in as an admin user, aren't you? Otherwise you must authenticate everytime you modify the contents of "Applications".
Sorry mate but it won't be H.264 video. Just straight up HTML5/canvas so it will be hell of hard to block...
Just decided to play a video off Gametrailers.com in Flash format and I was not impressed.
Well first off I am running the Gala preview on my Mac so Safari got a big boost, instead of Flash using 70% of my CPU (Chrome), Safari used only 40%. Also for some reason Chrome was using 25% and Chrome Renderer was using 50%, while Safari sipped 10% and I had a few other windows open in Safari while Chrome only had the one window.
Not acceptable at all, even if you don't account for the newer version of Flash it's still 75% (Chrome) vs 10% Safari.
Well first off I am running the Gala preview on my Mac so Safari got a big boost, instead of Flash using 70% of my CPU (Chrome), Safari used only 40%. Also for some reason Chrome was using 25% and Chrome Renderer was using 50%, while Safari sipped 10% and I had a few other windows open in Safari while Chrome only had the one window.
Not acceptable at all, even if you don't account for the newer version of Flash it's still 75% (Chrome) vs 10% Safari.
Chrome is awesome.
in similar news, IE has lost market share, but what's more interesting is how Chrome tripled it's market share in the past year, while Safari has remained relatively static. sorry Safari, but you're on the outs for this computer.
the mac version is still in beta
in similar news, IE has lost market share, but what's more interesting is how Chrome tripled it's market share in the past year, while Safari has remained relatively static. sorry Safari, but you're on the outs for this computer.
I didn't even know there was an official release for the 1st version.
lol
the mac version is still in beta
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Are you running this latest beta of Chrome?
This new beta of Chrome overrides the Gala beta of Flash, so you have to disable it in about : configs to get Gala to become the main Flash plugin. Then, your CPU utilization should go back down.
I just ran SunSpider Benchmark for Safari (32 bit and 64 bit), Firefox, Chrome, and Opera (all the most recent versions) just to see what I results I would get. I have a first generation Mac Pro, 11 GB of RAM and 4 750 GB Hard drives. Everything else is standard equipment as it came from Apple when new. I ran the benchmarks one at a time with nothing else running on the machine; all conditions were exactly alike for each test.
Here are the results (and their interesting):
Safari (32 Bit)..........467.4 ms +/- 0.6%
Safari (64 Bit)..........402.2 ms +/- 0.9%
Chrome...................332.2 ms +/- 2.9%
Firefox....................928.0 ms +/- 2.7%
Opera.....................379.8 ms +/- 0.8%
Its interesting that Chrome and Opera are the clear winners here. Safari 64 bit is not far behind, Safari 32 bit is not so hot, but Firefox is the real dog in these tests.
There is much more to the overall quality and value of a browser than just Java performance, however, these results are telling.
However, when running a Hulu TV show (SGU Episode) in high resolution and full screen on my 30" Apple Cinema display the playback rate was much worse then it was in the last version of Chrome (where it was actually better than on all the other browsers before the upgrade).
Dave
Here are the results (and their interesting):
Safari (32 Bit)..........467.4 ms +/- 0.6%
Safari (64 Bit)..........402.2 ms +/- 0.9%
Chrome...................332.2 ms +/- 2.9%
Firefox....................928.0 ms +/- 2.7%
Opera.....................379.8 ms +/- 0.8%
Its interesting that Chrome and Opera are the clear winners here. Safari 64 bit is not far behind, Safari 32 bit is not so hot, but Firefox is the real dog in these tests.
There is much more to the overall quality and value of a browser than just Java performance, however, these results are telling.
However, when running a Hulu TV show (SGU Episode) in high resolution and full screen on my 30" Apple Cinema display the playback rate was much worse then it was in the last version of Chrome (where it was actually better than on all the other browsers before the upgrade).
Dave
The number of connections Chrome is making to Google is insane. Then there are all the strange cookies like "safewebbrowsing.google..." Don't like this at all. Browser is very nice but it talks way too much with Google. From normal browsing standpoint they make no sense. I would like to know exactly what data is shared.
well said.
and apple can't do that because Steve jobs doesn't like flash, as simple as that.
I don't yet have Chrome for this exact concern.
I may download it tonight while at home to see what the terms and conditions are - I'm looking to reduce my Google exposure, not increase it.
It's bad enough that they collect my search info, but to know where I'm surfing all the time is just beyond the pale. Now, I don't know that they do this with Chrome, but I wouldn't put it past them either.
Errr....just like...everything that could be a possible trace to better personal product placement.
So basically everything - but Google will say, they are anonymizing the data if you ask them.
Me too... i tried several sites with both Safari and Chrome side-by-side and I was not impressed with the Chrome's "blazing" speed -- and I get about 20Mbps downstream so I'm pretty sure my network connection is not making Wikipedia lag in any way.
Both browsers were comparable to each other with Safari winning out on some and Chrome on others, but mostly they would start rendering at different times and would finish at about the same time.
I use Chrome mainly for testing apps (along with Firefox and IE), but Safari is my primary browser for no other reason than I like the look of "Top Sites" (a Firefox plugin tries to mimic that but fails so far -- hoping it improves). Other than "Top Sites", it seems to me that the non-Microsoft browsers are a bit of a commodity, unless you are a fiend for customization, in which case I'd say Firefox wins hands-down. In fact, Mozilla should run commercials where they say "there's a plugin for that" -- especially Firebug, which incidentally makes Firefox my primary browser for Web/Dojo development.