Occasionally, I boot up Windows on my Mac just to run Google Chrome. Given how often I used Google’s services like Gmail and Google Reader, it’s almost worth it because they run so fast on Chrome’s JavaScript engine, which it calls “V8.” And today, Google has apparently slammed on the gas and made V8 even faster.
JavaScript-heavy webpages (such as Gmail), will now run 30% faster on Chrome, according to Google. Given how fast they were already running, that’s fairly insane.
This new version of Chrome also boasts the ability to remove thumbnails from the Tab Page. This is a feature that rival browsers such as Safari 4, already offer and is useful if, as Google notes in the video below, “you have a site in there that you’d rather not admit to visiting quite as often as your actually do.” Other new features include full-screen browsing mode and form auto-fill. Again, many of its rivals also already offer these.
Google says its fixed over 300 bugs that have caused crashes since it first launched. That’s nice, but the speed is the real story here. At least until the damn Mac version launches.
Then I should give it another try…when I installed first time sometime ago I couldn’t even run it because it crashed instantaneously. Every time…
Who is that dog in the googlechrome crunchbase profile… jesus.. almost threw up onto my tablet…
Again. Chrome is liked for its rebustness against hang or struck, not for rendering speed.
Hopefully with Crome you can remove that dogs thumbnail on your crunchbase profiles.
I’d rather stick with Firefox and the marvelous new tab king extension (http://www.newtabking.com) – no offense Google
–shelly
Hey Google/Twitter Evangelist how are you doing today at TechCrunch?
Is that list eventually going to include basically every site on the Internet? I see it’s expanding already.
It all depends on your body of work. I just picked up how much of a Google Evangelist you are. We all know your in bed in Twitter.
Which post exactly am I referring to? “Google Suggest Adds Hyperlinks, Personalization And Yes, Ads.” We all know if Yahoo had done the exact same thing you’d call them boring. Yahoo can’t seem to do anything right. Dude Its not fun criticizing everything you do. Just be reasonable or fair.
So there you go. Like the bible says by their fruits we shall know them. And I’m a Buddhist by the way.
Well I’m glad your squeezed your religious shout outs in there.
Perhaps you missed coverage like:
http://www.tech...te-still-sucks/
and
http://www.tech...-still-failing/
and
http://www.tech...cial-profiling/
and
http://www.tech...-when-you-cant/
and
http://www.tech...awful-24-hours/
I could go on….
Nice try though. Keep up the good work.
Thats a good point. But I still refuse to believe that you biased sentiments that are favorable to google and unfavorable to yahoo.
How about this. I’ll remove my Google evangelist label for now.
No. You are quite accurate, except for the fact that yahoo is extreemly boring. Yahoo = deadpool
that siegler is biased.. is no new news.. would be fun to occasionally get some real reporting..
Hey, asshat, the fact is that you still have a huge percentage of posts about G! and Twatter. Maybe math isn’t your strongest card but percentage is what you want to use (G! + Twatter)/total. Moron.
God forbid they cover extremely successful companies that people use and care about.
Don’t click on the article if you don’t? Read another site that covers less of these companies?
Exactly. Go else ware.. although.. I do understand the crunch-crack phenomenon.. it’s hard not to click….
Even though I am done reading about twit, I probably still will in the search for knowledge and during floods of boredom when the tubes are fail…
And now I am even hurting the anti twit cause by talking about it because to them it doesn’t matter the connotation you use, only the keywords..
We cannot win internetters!! We must eat the twatter garbage.. at least until the jailbait has taken it over completely from usefulness and they quit writing..
Sorry you seem to take so much crap about twitter MG.. you’re a soldier. people mainly just hate that you guys are making money I bet lol…
Is this post Google-friendly or what ?!
That’s what producing a good browser leads to. Being a popular browser, ala I.E. or Firefox, doesn’t.
I believe Opera’s (rare) coverage has been much the same. Some things do warrant shouting about, because they are that good.
Time I give it a try finally. I have always been looking at the icon and each time went for Firefox.
waiting for the linux version i better not hold by breathe
Sure would be nice if they got Chrome out for the Mac.
Periodic (not quite nightly) pre-release builds are available here: http://build.ch...dbot/snapshots/
For Linux, too.
Has anyone actually compared Google app performance on Chrome versus WebKit? I run the latest WebKit (Safari) nightly builds, and even the most Javascript-intensive sites perform at insanely fast speeds.
I don’t think you need to wait for Chrome on the Mac. The combination of Safari 3.2.3 and the latest WebKit rendering engine performs wickedly fast for me.
I still have major issues running any of the Google apps on the latest version of Safari (yes, the beta version). When they do run, Chrome seems a lot faster. But Safari is fast as hell for most web apps too.
‘Fast as hell’ is quite the scientific approach. ‘Cool as fuck’ should also be used because it shows your lack of bias.
and knowledge.
You should try the mac build. If you are willing to forgo flash, then it might fit quite a few of your needs. For latest builds and status updates see this post
http://www.manu...r-mac-os-x/230/
Chrome on mac, when it first appeared it beat the latest Safari and Firefox on Sunpsider benchmarks. I haven’t done a revised benchmark after that but the scores should be level now between chrome and safari beta
http://www.manu...mpressions/226/
Major issues like what?
Isn’t Chrome based on webkit?
Yes it is
Chrome looks better and better all the time. Firefox continues to get more bloated while IE continues to be IE.
Seems like Chrome now deserves another chance! I’m so used to Firefox(and its add-ons) that switching to another browser is a scary thought! I hope Chorme has some kind of similar add-ons.
The main reason I read posts about Twitter, Google, Apple, Facebook & Microsoft……
I skip the article and jump right to the comments. Comments make me lol and make the day go by a lot faster.
test.
I love Chrome, it astounds me all the time. I’m impressed they were able to squeeze that much more performance out of it. Just installed the new version and the difference is noticeable on GMail.
I still use Firefox for Development because I can’t do without the add-ons. For normal browsing though I’m all Chrome.
I’m glad to hear Chrome is so awesome. What would be truly awesome is if Google would stop treating Mac’s like an afterthought.
Macs are an afterthought. Come and join reality, we have real software.
I’ve been using Chrome for a while now. It’s great and I’m excited by the prospect of an even speedier version. While Firefox has some indispensible extensions, Chrome is better IMO for simple browsing.
On Firefox (or at least my version with my set of extensions), the startup and extension updating took so freaking long that I found I could start up Chrome and be on the net before FF was half finished loading. That’s one of the main reasons I made it my default.
I don’t know why people hate on google.. chrome by far is the best browser out there. Even early build of chromium on linux and mac… are awesome. Although both have stability issues. I would prefer to use unstable versions of chrome over safari, and firefox.
You can use chrome on mac even now. Only major thing it doesn’t support right now is plugins. So no youtube. For more details on what works and for builds see this post
http://www.manu...r-mac-os-x/230/
When I reviewed it first this is what I wrote
“While it is far from stable and ready for daily use, it is stable enough for the Chrome Developers to use it to dogfood basic browser functionality. Chrome on mac works similar to the one on windows, with one process spawned per tab, which you can monitor using Activity Monitor. It also adheres to the Mac design principles with the menu bar on top unlike its windows cousin. Chrome hasn’t lost any of its speed in its port to OS X. A cold start is blindingly fast and web sites load quickly. On SunSpider benchmark the latest chrome build is far ahead of Firefox 3.0 and slightly ahead of Safari 4 Beta. It also beats the latest Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 scores on windows.”
Amazing… I cant get enough of Chrome! Its easily the fastest browser out there. Now its even faster.
Off topic, is that a photo of a BMW V8? It looks BMW since is so perfect?
yes, it is.
How cute, you have a clipart collection.
Asshat you are relentlessly funny, and I thank you.
MG, so you have such M3 or is it on the list. If its on the list let me be the first to say. BMW should give MG Siegler a BMW M3 to photo and share with the world for a few months.. ship the car to his address and save multi millions in BMW branding and free advertising to its core market. Yes I worked for BMW seven year.
Chrome is perfect until you browse medieval websites like att and sbc related ones.
good to see that
Well I’ve been using Chrome for quite a while, and it seems it’s working nice, I must agree with this article is very fast, faster than Firefox
I’m still waiting on my bookmark all tans function instead of clicking the damn star for every tab; once it gets that I’ll give it a second chance
You can download a version of Chrome for mac from the chromium.org snapshots of the latest build:
http://build.ch...ts/sub-rel-mac/
So F****** fast it is unbelieveable. At least on my POS.
good one
Great to see that google revise chrome as it works very slow.