I downloaded Google's new browser called Chrome this morning. It was an online installer, and completed in a minute. It offered to import my setting from my FireFox and I said yes. The browser window then popped up. It looked kind of full screen as you can see in the pics. I then entered my blog's address and let her rip.
New tab screen in Chrome
Page element alignment is as crappy as IE. It may be that
Mozilla's very forgiving with unmatched tags and such, but this is not what I expected from Chrome. Check out the differences below:
With each passing minute, my expectations and initial enthusiasm decreased; until after a minute later I was seriously angry. The browser is
VERY VERY SLOW. SLOW in the sense, IE 5.0 slow. Even IE 6 is faster than Chrome. I know that this is
Google's first attempt at a browser and that it's still in Beta. I also know that the performance will increase as I keep using it. But after FF3's blazing fast speed, I cant help but be very disappointed with Google. Their high standards have always spoiled me and this has been a wake up call or sorts. The features/options/prefs are minimal and customization is as extinct as the dodo. I'll be using it now and then, probably run some page load tests and use new Beta versions as they get released.
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New tab screen in Chrome
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I second that. . . soooo slooooooowwwwwwwww
There's subjective speed, and then there's actual speed tests. Subjectively, I didn't find Chrome to be too much faster than FF 3 or Opera 9.25, but the tests say otherwise:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10030888-92.html
I had the same response- it's too slow to compete for now...
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I haven't even heard of Google Chrome yet. Thanks for sharing! I'm guess that I should just stick to Firefox then.
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there are 2 opinions on the net presently, CHROME is too slow and the second says that CHROME is super fast.
some might say that this is quite contadictory and one of them must be false. BUT the reality is both the opinions are correct.
This is SHOCKING but TRUE, the chrome installed on my home computer is horribly slow even after reinstall its so slow that i had to revert back to FF3. but the chrome installed in my office is AMAZINGLY FAST. both the internet connections are about the same speed (2Mbps).
Slow???
slow is a fast word for it...
i guess the problem is, as always, google team believe they imposing us they "standards" made the best for us... but not... they just left one tab to be normal process priority, and then the other become below normal priority... why the hell we want the other tabs to be slow? we are surfing the web, and we set a tab to open a page while we check another, then we go back to that tab... just to discover it is just a white page still geting contents... ermmmmm
this is not what we want for a browser...
Every assumes that if a browser is fast on their computer, it will be fast on all computers. This is not true at all. For some, Chrome may be much faster than its competition. For others, such as myself, find it very slow. Another example of this includes that I found Opera 9.5 much slower than Opera 9.2, even though there was supposed to be a big leap in speed in that update. I still find Opera the fastest browser, but not by leaps and bounds, as I had found Opera 9.2. There are so many surrounding variables that are unique to each situation. That is why we must stop bickering (all over the net)about the fastest and best browsers and just choose the browser that works best for our computers and internet connections.
google chrome is really vry slow
Google chrome - very slow
Iron Browser is almost the same as chrome but faster.
The faster browser - Opera 9.2 portable.
This one is really fast.
Tried Google Chrome, and it's WAY TOO SLOW to use.
At first, I was impressed by its quick install and light weight. But after just a few minutes of using it, some pages were taking a full minute to load. Even Google search results would take at least 30 seconds, then when you'd click on a search result, that page would take about a minute to load.
Google Chrome is, at least for now, unusable.
no ways google chrome is great acc to me
Was your only test of Chrome looking at your blog? Your blog's analytics code is very, very ugly (it's building and trying to submit a form every 10ms while loading the page). This is apparently triggering a Chrome bug that's causing it to try and repaint the screen.
If you're seeing slowness on other sites, that would really surprise me and might be evidence of some other bugs we can fix.
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