Google Chrome 3 - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

**framerman** · 09-15-2009, 09:30 PM

I have to say when this first came out, I was yawning. I'm Firefox through and through. Maybe Safari occasionally. Firefox seems to be crashing lately.

I saw the news update just a few minutes ago and figured why not.

So far it is smoking fast. They say it's 25% faster at rendering javascript than chrome 2.

Try it, who knows, you might like it.

Story

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic..._25_speed_gain

download page

http://www.google.com/chrome

gideond · 09-15-2009, 09:40 PM

I have several issues with pages that Chrome just refused to work correctly on. Version 3 hasn't been as bad, but it hasn't been that good. FF3.5 has given me no issues with freezing at all. I still think a lot of the FF problems people experience are caused by the extensions they use. Opera 10 is decent but in about the same boat as Chrome IMO. It has too many issues with different sites. It's better now that it's out of beta, but still not as good as Firefox IMO. Safari I can completely do without. It's a total memory hog on Windows. Everyone use to complain about FF hogging memory, well Safari far outdoes FF in my experience. At least it doesn't try to take over mysterious parts of your computer like iTunes though.

Metro M & L · 09-15-2009, 11:30 PM

I liked chrome alot but it seems to be getting slower. It also has no feature to turn off pop up blocker that I can find.

gideond · 09-16-2009, 05:58 AM

I don't think it's getting slower so much as the competition is catching up. Chrome's speed claims were primarily based on it's ability to render javascript much faster than existing browsers. Firefox stepped up the development of their script engine in response and closed the gap pretty quickly. Opera followed suite.