I was about to skip the Google Chrome age as I thought it was just another browser trying to take a cut out of the browser pie, Firefox was already a good enough browser … how wrong I was!
Discovered a blog entry on Google Chrome and after reading it, immediately decided to give it a shot … actually it was the comic strip that made me install it:
So far I’m loving it, since it’s a multithreaded browser, WEB2 pages load in parallel making it extremely responsive (WEB1 also loads faster as images and multimedia content loads in parallel), a proper garbage collection system making its memory management system one of the best I’ve seen so far, Firefox used to crash my PC when I leave GMail open over night, otherwise my PC just became horribly slow with Firefox’s memory usage going into excess of 3GB (Internet Explorer is a lot worse, not even going to mention it here)
They’ve made it geek friendly by adding a feature where you can monitor its memory usage per page, per plugin, to access this page, just go to “about:memory“, it’ll show memory usage of Google Chrome as well as any other browser you have open. JavaScript / AJAX is extremely stable in Google Chrome, guess their V8 virtual machine they’ve developed for JavaScript is doing a good job.
I can go on all day about Google Chrome, do yourself a favour, read the comics and install it.
Just hoping they’ll hurry up with the native Linux version, sign up here for updates on the Linux version of Google Chrome.
PS, does this thing have a spellcheck?
Hmmmm… aversion to change aversion to change… still using FireFox.
Chrome that good hey? Damn. I’ll have to try it.
Firefox is still a fantastic browser, Chrome is just slightly better as it is being funded by Google, still a couple of minor bugs here and there, but that’s only in in the way some AJAX scripts are being executed with the cause being badly written AJAX code or hardcoded JavaScript browser detection scripts which doesn’t make provision for Chrome.
Google’s reason for spending so much money on developing an open source browser?
I’ve created my own mini-image search engine as thesis last year with the idea of using the image’s placement on a page relative to the text surrounding it as interpretation for what the image is, unfortunately this is work for 4000 engineers and not for one single engineer (my engine did do some level of interpretation, but nothing near as complex as I planned). Google as far as I know and have heard from inside sources, are busy with exactly such a project, indexing images and cutting out the human factor in tagging these images, to do this accurately, they need a way to fully render a page with all its JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, XHTML, Flash, etc etc etc, the idea is then to build this browser backend into the spiders or the parser in order to get more accurate data from webpages, rather than seeing it in only raw code.
Give Chrome a chance, but don’t let go of Firefox just yet.