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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10199417-2.html

So this apparently is old-news, judging by the date of this article, but I just ran into it and I must say... I'm impressed. I apologize if this has been posted before, I made a search and didn't find anything (the again, since it's old it may have been deleted...)

Trying to promote the speed of google chrome, Google apparently launched a site to demonstrate the speed of JavaScript on its browser. These caught my eye:

Monster
I ran this animation on Firefox 3.5 and on crhome simultaneously. Chrome had finished the animation TWICE and FF still wasn't done.

Bomomo
I found this one really, really nifty.

Ball Pool
Shaking the screen tosses around balls on the screen. Nifty that the JS can detect this...

Browser Ball
Kinda hard to explain. A beach ball bouncing from one browser window to another. As the author himself points out, it's "not as lame as it sounds" .

I've pretty much stopped using Firefox myself. Chrome is noticably faster with a lot of things and it doesn't take up to 400+ megs of RAM because of the 'flash memory leak' thing.

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Plugiiiiiiiiiiiins

how'm I s'posed ta download my required 3gigs of porn per day without noscript and adblock?

I love chrome, but being on dialup, I've come to rely on certain firefox addons (specifically things like no-script, and imglikeopera) to significantly lower the bandwidth that most sites use.

When chrome can do this, I'd switch in an instant.

elph said:

I've pretty much stopped using Firefox myself. Chrome is noticably faster with a lot of things and it doesn't take up to 400+ megs of RAM because of the 'flash memory leak' thing.

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Hmm, I need to try Chrome on my new netbook. Especially to see if it'll handle Flash video any better.

Chrome is all I use on my netbook. It gives you a bit more viewable area for the webpage.

I like Chrome but I still prefer FF because of it's customizability (noscript and adblock FTW)

There is another browser called Iron Browser. It is based off of Google Chrome, and has most of the same features there, with the big exception of having stripped out a lot of the stuff that causes privacy concerns. Things like Client-ID, Timestamp, Suggest, etc etc. It also has a file you can download called adblock.ini that works much like adblocker in Firefox. I've played around with it and it is not bad, though I still prefer Firefox.


Iron Browser as far as I can tell is nowhere near as customizable as Firefox, all it has is the adblock.ini file. But here is the website in case anyone is interested:

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

Does google Chrome have mouse gestures, thats something i really like and i didn't want to install the one for windows period, just a per browser one.