Posts Tagged: chrome

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Sep 08

Google Chrome: First Impressions

Well, Chrome is here and so far I’m pretty impressed. Although currently only available for Windows (you can’t actually download the Windows version if your browser identifies you as a Mac user – I had to select a Windows user agent for the download page to let me download it) it’s quite snappy, even running under Parallels. 

I had no trouble loading any pages and even complex pages such as my netvibes.com customized homepage (which is slow to load on other browsers) seemed to load very quickly (and this was in a virtual machine!).

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Sep 08

Google Chrome: Addressing Real Browsing Needs

Whilst there’s not much to go on yet, I believe Google has hit the nail on the head with their goals for their new browser. Browsing the web with both Firefox and Safari is usually pretty enjoyable, until you hit the inevitable few seconds of slowdown:

The dreaded beachball of slowness starts cropping up, new tabs take a while to load and memory usage seems to go through the roof.

By setting themselves the target of speed, reliability and efficiency first, Google is addressing all the frustrations typical of other browsers. By making the browser multi-process based, they also have a fresh technological approach that might mark an interesting new direction for browser design.

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