Posted by tonyv on September 3, 2008 at 12:35pm
Google has launched a new browser called "Chrome." I wonder how this will affect our approach to compatibility. Will this give us more work/headaches? Is this a good thing? Who plans to try it?
Here is a link ==> http://www.google.com/chrome
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not many problems
I'm guessing this browser will be very standards-compliant. This means that the compatibility issues will be very minimal.
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From Webware: Chrome tops IE, Firefox in Acid3 test
Article here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030962-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&su...
Good news for standards-compliant developers!
Compatability
I downloaded and view all my sites with no noticeable defects.
Can't be as bad as IE
I signed up for the MAC updates... but Google seems to be pretty switched on.
I've been using it for > 24
I've been using it for > 24 hours straight and I can say one thing; I have only run across minor display problems on some sites, but performance and memory usage is a HUGE improvement over even Firefox.
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Performance Improvement
Since I have a Macintosh, I don't have chrome yet. However, I have seen it run and I agree with alxconn that the performance greatly out shines any current browser. From what I have read, ...
I believe that the performance improvement has to deal with the JavaScript engine. As a side note, I also love the minimalist design of the app. (very much like google itself, unobtrusive design).
Memory
I think the main issue with this will be the memory consumption. The problem is that this browser essentially starts a new "application" everytime a new tab is opened. So everytime you go to a new website, more memory is gobbled up. On an older pc this could turn into a big deterrent. I have seen quotes as high as 100 mb in one instance of the application. Compared to much smaller foot prints left by firefox, and ie. Some users this won't matter (I currently am running a pc with 4 gigs of ram) but to make a real mark in this niche you need to have a small footprint.
Currently on my pc at work. It crashes and burns on startup and is basically unusable.
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As far as memory consumption
As far as memory consumption is concerned, Chrome may use more in a short browsing session VS Firefox, but in a typical day-long session in Firefox I will run into allocations as high as 800-1200 MB, at which point, between XP, Outlook, Digsby, Firefox, Ventrillo and Firefox my entire 2 GB of RAM is over-full and I'm paging to disk. Chrome has never used more than 300 MB of RAM, and that was with 3 windows and ~30 tabs open.
Now, the memory difference depends mostly on 3 things:
For me, it's a great trade off to give up some memory short term to not needing to require me to re-start my browser several times during the day. I'm amazed at how many people have been having issues installing Chrome and using it, as it's been just amazing for me.
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I was sick on tuesday so I got Chrome first today... Browsing since hours and pretty impressed. Very fast, no disturbing stuff or buttons, great features even in beta and the bonbon is the suggest function in the address bar :D .
Chrome Rocks !!!
Drupal Rocks !!!
Today I noticed that images
Today I noticed that images in views are not showing up in Chrome. Anyone else have this? or have any idea about it?