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wuhooo...snappier!

Aug 13, 09 - 11:52 am Comment from: shen

Now crashing 2.7 times faster!

Aug 13, 09 - 11:55 am Comment from: iWill

Yeah, I always wondered what in the world I could do with those extra 229 ms.

Anything that reduces the presence of Internet Expooper is welcome to me.

There is just no limit to the utter stupidity of men.

Aug 13, 09 - 12:05 pm Comment from: Demon

To be fair here Google is taking Apple's Webkit Code and working from that point. And speed does little if the Google code changes are buggy. Google might be more focused on speed then delivering a solid browser. I'll stick with Safari for a solid and fast browser the 229 milliseconds doesn't mean very much.

I've never been very impressed with Google's code. They really should just stick with Web Search and try to innovate some more in that space. The distractions of all the side projects is preventing them from really do more in search. Just because they have 80%+/- of the market now does not mean it's can't change very quickly it is the internet we're talking about.

Can we get a judge to make a ruling to outlaw Internet Expooper, on the basis that it is costing the world economy hundreds of billion dollars?

Or better yet, outlaw Micro$hit itself for the criminal enterprise it is.

Wake me up when it ships.

Aug 13, 09 - 12:11 pm Comment from: ID Argyll

Doesn't matter how fast it is if it's buggy. Stability has more merit than speed. Besides, I don't think or work in milliseconds, so what difference will a few more of them be?

Aug 13, 09 - 12:12 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

iWill

Whew, thanks for doing that math, I'm kinda slow at it and you saved me 3 or 4 seconds

Now, let's all spend the extra time wisely ...

BC

Aug 13, 09 - 12:18 pm Comment from: Bartsimpsonhead

Google needs to polish that Chrome a bit more then...

Aug 13, 09 - 12:29 pm Comment from: MidWest Mac

I don't trust people who use the words "hellacious" and "delicious" to describe browser tests.

The first word should be reserved to describe something like a battle field. The second, a gourmet dinner, perhaps.

All I know is that Chrome is still under development on the Mac and those speeds could change and that I still think Safari is bodacious.

Aug 13, 09 - 12:31 pm Comment from: anaknipedro

Chrome for Mac may be behind in the development process, but it is the best browser on Windows. I never really needed the extensibility of Firefox. If you do need extensibility, then obviously FF is the way to go. But for browsing and web2.0 applications, Chrome is amazing and stable, and I'm on the dev channel! I never could use Safari on Windows because the UI is slow and buggy. For the Mac I'll stick with Safari, but for Windows, Chrome is the best.

Aug 13, 09 - 12:37 pm Comment from: Malthus

At least Safari gives you time to blink while the page is loading...

Aug 13, 09 - 12:40 pm Comment from: LordRobin

On the Mac, I find it hard to believe we need another browser in addition to Safari and Firefox. Safari for quick, simple browsing, Firefox for fully-customizable browsing. That pretty much covers the bases.

------RM

Errr try testing against the nightly build for webkit.... Then you get a sense that chrome is just touting WebKit's work. Well no the bozo journo who doesn't think to test it fairly....

Great, I love speed. The faster the browser the better. Now can we have a stable release please...

I just ran SunSpider in WebKit on my MacBook Pro, and with 23 other windows open and several other apps running, it still finished in 604 ms -- 53 ms faster than the Chrome benchmark above...

Oh, and WebKit seems pretty stable, too.

Safari does seem slower than advertised!

I use Web Kit almost exclusively now. Fire Fox has been crashing a lot lately and is noticeably slower.

Maybe it's time to try Chromium?

comparing a beta version of chrome to a release version of Safari? Do they pay this writer with a bag of stupid? CNET UK, get your money back.

Aug 13, 09 - 01:13 pm Comment from: Cubert

Chrome is already at 4.0?!?!? You think that maybe they are cranking through the version numbers to make it sound like a more refined product?

@iWill

"Yeah, I always wondered what in the world I could do with those extra 229 ms."

You can inhale next to a smoker for 5 minutes.

@ MacGuy:

NO! Let Microsoft keep distributing IE – they make no money on it and it sucks eggs. Better to have judges ban the sale of Microsoft's decent software (Word) which actually makes Microsoft money.

So now we just need a ban on selling Windows . . . see if Microsoft can survive on Xbox sales and Bing (nope!).

It's faster, but has bugs? Heck, I can do that! The Web Browser I'm building is 734% faster than Safari on Mac OS X. I just cut out that whole "rendering pages" part. Nobody cares about that anyway... :-D

Does google Chrome keep track of your web browsing habits (what sites you visit, how long you spend there, what text you enter into text boxes, etc.) and send the info back to Google? The fact that they retain your search history FOREVER and read and index your email and store it FOREVER and read and index your Google Docs and store the indexed text FOREVER leads me to be a bit afraid of using google's browser until I know more about what it does for Google and how Google plans to profit off it.

There are things that matter more than speed. How many of us drive NHRA top fuel drag racers to work? Some of us like to be able to make turns.

And so it is with Chrome - a pain in the ass in real world operation. It is a buggy mess. Moreover, it goes against one's instincts to rely on products that have one primary purpose: to profile you for the profit of marketeers.

Let someone else polish Google's chrome. Customer service and good product development have been put on the back burner while Google/Doubleclick finds more ways to extract personal information from us. Yes, Google is turning evil. Stick to reliable non-evil browsers (Firefox, iCab, Omniweb, Opera, and Safari).

Aug 13, 09 - 01:52 pm Comment from: KingMel

Buggy software is worthless. The headline touts speed, but the warts in Chrome are numerous and the performance is not better across the board. Also, when something is already fast, 34% is not necessarily a significant increase (although faster is always better).

"Chrome 4.0 has better support for Adobe Flash now (ironically, the first version of the browser on OS X didn't work with Flash, meaning Google's own YouTube was unsupported). Problem is, it's still criminally inefficient, resulting in poor frame rates, excessive CPU usage and choppy playback -- three issues not present in Safari or Firefox on OS X."

And I bet you don't have to reboot your computer after every Chrome update

How did they get to version 4.0 already? It's not even finished... should be version 1.0.

And strange that they don't make it easy to find the Mac version of Chrome... says "still in development, sign up to receive notifications". I have v3.x, how did I get that?

Aug 13, 09 - 02:24 pm Comment from: grok

Excellent - Chrome on the dreaded work PC is light and fast, and the tab behavior is great and, in my opinion, better than Safari's. Nice to see that Apple & Google are in competition. Better for us.

not sure about this, when is it going to be released v.1.0 to the public? why taking so long? seems like Mac is not a priority for Google anymore, especially since the shakeup of the corporate boards, and articles like this:
http://www.derekunderwood.com/web-programming/google-chrome-is-really-just-for-windows/

Aug 13, 09 - 02:30 pm Comment from: Spark

"Safari does seem slower than advertised!"

That's because you use it to visit MDN, where all browsers seem excruciatingly slow.

Aug 13, 09 - 02:38 pm Comment from: jjjj

I use Chrome often on my work WinXPpc and I prefer it to other browsers. Not perfect, but a good choice. Let's hope it pushes the envelope and gets AAPL to make an even better Safari...

If they can get it stable and fast then all credit to them, until then my interest is passing at best.

Aug 13, 09 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

The only difference between Chrome and Safari is Javascript, right? Since they both use Webkit as their rendering engine.

Um, what is the point of this article? Chrome on the Mac is an prerelease, incomplete development version. To claim it's "riddled with bugs" is just stupid.

it's version 0.4 not 4.0
1.0 and a stable release are far far away

Aug 13, 09 - 04:18 pm Comment from: prenzelberger

What I miss in this discussion is balance.

I have been using the nightly builts for awhile now and they have become richer and stabler each day.
The interface took some getting used to, but now I like it and the interaction with google search is certainly interesting. Chrome is every bit as solid as Safari, which still craps out on a regular basis.

Perhaps, some of you should just be trying it out before condemning it ... "my platform right or wrong" seems a little myopic.

Aug 13, 09 - 05:14 pm Comment from: dimplemonkey

Safari will always be faster than Chrome on G5 for obvious reasons.

Aug 13, 09 - 06:16 pm Comment from: Ray

Hmmm...I am not able to download chrome for myself....I guess vaporware is always faster than real software.

"That's because you use it to visit MDN, where all browsers seem excruciatingly slow."

Tru dat.

I only use browsers that have mouse gestures. It's pure pain if you have to click back button.

Redmond....I mean Cupertino...have only themselves to blame. Looking forward to giving this a go. Wouldn't have looked at it seriously before the Microsoft inspired Safari 4.

Aug 14, 09 - 10:54 am Comment from: derekcurrie

Chrome = nice competition for Safari. The hilarity is the IE is sitting face down in the mud miles behind them both.

But how does a browser jump from version 1.0 to version 4.0 within a few months. This sounds terribly 'Microsoft' to me. Fake higher version numbers in order to catch up with the version number of the competition, like that means anything. Watch them tick up to Chrome version 5 next month faking an iteration advantage over Safari 4. Pure, unadulterated marketing moron stooopidity. Go blow yourselves Google. Me = laughing at you.

Aug 14, 09 - 03:53 pm Comment from: cptnkirk

Wait until safari us running under Snow Leopard!