Well, there you have it. Another browser just hit the market. Google just released a beta of their new browser, and I’m taking it out for a test ride.
Click below to continue reading the rest of my experience:
First of all, the download comes in at a measly 474KB. Pretty small, but when you start it up, it downloads the rest of the program. A bit deceptive, but the download was quite fast. Works for me!
Google mentioned on their Chrome page that they developed a new Javascript engine for faster Javascript response, so I’m gonna try browsing some Javascript-heavy sites:
Plurk: Hmm… response was almost the same as Firefox, except response was just a wee bit faster, by a margin of only a few seconds.
Yahoo Webmessenger: My goodness, the flash on this site makes most slow computers cry. I tried opening it up, but as soon as the flash app loaded, it froze. That was, until I saw all of the offline messages my account got. But still, responsive.
Danny Choo: Took a while to render the images. Fast, but not much faster than Firefox.
I really didn’t have too much test scenarios to start with. I’ll put in some more findings later. At the moment, it’s lighter than Firefox, but not that much faster. Looking good though.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I wouldn’t use Chrome just yet. I’m sure it has potential, but being early beta, there are sure to be lots of bugs.
There are already exploits for them over the net.