[aklug] Re: Google Crome

atftb2@alaska.net said, on 07/13/2010 09:13 PM:
>> I like fire fox but Crome is better. It works fine on ubuntu.
>
> I tried it at work. I'm running Debian Lenny w/a Win7 instance in VirtualBox. My
> impression was it sucked rocks. I don't recall if it was on the Linux or Windows
> side, but it took forever to load, maxed the CPU and in general was anything but
> fast. I must be an anomaly though because everybody else seems to really like it.
> Maybe I'll try it again on another box.

Yeah, I would - that slow performance seems like an outlier.

> The one thing that's really off-putting to me though is because they integrated the
> URL box and the search box, all my browsing is seen by Google.

I believe that there is a way to widget that (though I don't remember
what it is) so that the suggestions are turned off. You can sniff the
traffic and see that your searchy bits aren't getting shipped away.

> After a browser loads I've never really noticed any difference in the rendering
> speed.

As soon as there's any JavaScript of any complexity, the speed
differences really show up. There's some leapfrog among browsers in
that regard as well, but Chrome made some painful apps actually usable
for me.

Royce
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Received on Tue Jul 13 22:18:48 2010