Well Chrome 2, I have the developers preview of chrome 2 and its improved from chrome 1 but the speed comes from memory use. Chrome treats each tab or window (web page) as a new program thus if that crashes it does not crash the whole browser. Problem is with 20k ish on average for each one if you got a few browsers open it soon stacks up and actually come to a lot more memory use then firefox with even more tabs open. I do love the space for the actual browser window and others will probably adopt more of the clean UI but the speed comes at a price with the memory use and yeah being separate programs you also got a lot of running processes as a result.

Firefox > Chrome

Imo , the only benefit you seem to get from Chrome is having less Windows open, but who really cares if Firefoxs footprint is more on a single window, we are only talking 50mb, that only leaves me 3950mb of available ram for other resources, omg however will i cope.

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Imo , the only benefit you seem to get from Chrome is having less Windows open, but who really cares if Firefoxs footprint is more on a single window, we are only talking 50mb, that only leaves me 3950mb of available ram for other resources, omg however will i cope.

I do not think you understand mate.
You do not have any windows. Modern browsers have tabs. Chrome treats each open tab or window as a separate running process through its gears system thus allowing for a few things like if it crashes it only crashes itself. this gives you one running process per tab or window. It is A LOT faster then firefox in terms of loading, page loading itself is about the same if you got a good tuned ff but its using a lot more memory to do the same job.

For me:
- Chrome needs to scrap its own Javascript engine (which they just done in the developer version in fact)
- Not have as many running process, work out a way to run gears and browser tabs separate from each other but not through another process (basically making it another application) (They will have to do this for the mac version they are working on so they should do the same for windows)
- Some UI tweaks that have been put to them by many people already such as just a bit of top breathing room for the tabs, they sit right at the edge and its a little off putting.

If Firefox crashes when you open it again, it opens/loads all the previous Windows, i dunno i just think we have IE, Firefox is better, do we really need better still?

I really dont think we do, personally. I for one will stick with Firefox, better or worse cus i dont see the point in changing

Quote from: BaconIf Firefox crashes when you open it again, it opens/loads all the previous Windows, i dunno i just think we have IE, Firefox is better, do we really need better still?

I really dont think we do, personally. I for one will stick with Firefox, better or worse cus i dont see the point in changing

Chrome also restores from a crash if your pc dies or something. FF is great and I use that mainly but I have been giving chrome 2 a chance at the moment, Just posting my thoughts. look and feel grows on you but I must say I do like the open and clean feel a lot.

Im not happy enough about Googles previous history to use Chrome. I dont think its a case of better, just different. People normally prefer a browser for a wide range of issues.

firefox > every other browser

Have they got mouse gestures for chrome yet? (Without having to install third-party applications)

Quote from: BigSoyHave they got mouse gestures for chrome yet? (Without having to install third-party applications)

Im more wondering if theyll produce a decent add-blocker.  Though Ill bet Google have something to say if anyone manages it with adds from Google.

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except Opera with its 12mb footprint, mouse gestures as standard, paste&go as standard, speeddial as standard...

all this mention of speed in browsers - this was important maybe 10 years ago ?

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Quote from: Eggtasticofirefox > every other browser

except Opera with its 12mb footprint, mouse gestures as standard, paste&go as standard, speeddial as standard...

 

Love Opera. My fav browser by far. Agree with Mark on the speed issue though - internets quick enough now that it makes little difference which browser loads pics quicker etc..

More about start-up time for me, chrome is quickest out of the blocks Ive seen.

Quote from: Markall this mention of speed in browsers - this was important maybe 10 years ago ?

Lack of understanding only thing here.
Basically m8, Yeah its very important.
Javascript and javascript frameworks for example is all client side and with the animations, things like JSON increasing and the amount of things run through the header of the html code and the increasing css functionality and support for the CSS3 Standards the amount of load time increases. This is why the next big firefox has a big javascript redering engine update, Chrome working hard on its, safari not long with its new one.
There is even more to it but as sites become more rich it is not just about the speed of your net connection. It can get to you fast but the browser still needs to process it all. Then of course if your running a lot of applications and you got a lot of sites open you do not want your browser chugging away.

As for opera, its going to struggle more and more this year in terms of pc/mac use. It is heading to more of a mobile platform only browser and even got challenge there with webkit based stuff really shining at the moment. After IE Opera is the next one loosing ground. More are switching to FF and chrome is increasing in popularity but not quite there yet. It is early days for google on it, will see how it goes.

People should give this a go: http://www.lunascape.tv/

I have never seen a browser chug since IE5 on a pentium pro 200