In a somewhat unusual move, the Google team decided today to shift its Internet browser, Chrome, out of beta stage, just a hundred days after its debut and shortly after the latest updates of competing browsers such as Opera Browser and Mozilla Firefox.
Google, which has sometimes been criticized for its tendency to leave many of its products in beta stage even when they are already stable and highly reliable, hopes the announcement will help the lightweight browser gain some market share, currently around the 1 percent mark.
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Chrome is famous for its speed only.
Till now we don't have any solution of it. It needs an update of Chrome to solve this problem. I think Google is working on it. So, we can expect that Google can fix this issue in their next version of Chrome.
That's because the browser is used on a small scale, and if there are security holes, nobody knows what they are right now. So there's nothing to tweak. The design of Chrome is intrinsically pretty secure IIRC, but simply put, nobody has exploited any design flaws, so there's nothing to fix.
strange, I've read the whole thread but nobody even mentiones the primary difference (well, that may just be as I see it) to other browsers: process separation
thats what impresses me the most. I'm so sick of losing my work (browser based support ticketing system at work) just because one singe tab has a problem and causes the whole fox to lie down and die I really loved the idea that every window, even every tab is a process of its own, completely independent. of course thats also quite a nice touch regarding security.
but apart from that I can't really see any real advantages to ff. speed? thats mostly a problem of JS devs, good & clean JS doesn't take long. believe me, even not so good & clean js can run extremely fast. I've once done something rather strange with js just for the fun of it. js loads, contacts a server by xmlrpc, gets JSON data from server and builds the complete html-dom from that - a complete page with tables, lists, texts, and so on.. and even though I'm not really good at js and I've never spent a minute optimizing it, it works amazingly fast so IF a page really is slow in FF, it probably just is the devs fault and working at a daily base with webdesigners/webprogrammers I can assure you. most of them have no idea about their work. the just fiddle around until it more or less does what it should. I've encountered only a handfull who really knew what they were doing (ok, to give the webdesigners credit: they were trying to do a webprogrammers jobs, because their customer didn't want to pay the expensive programmer.. but still *g*)
biggest con for chrome: (apart from no linux-version available currently): you can't use all the great FF add-ons.. for me, thats what makes the fox so irreplaceable. foxmarks, firebug, html tidy, easy gestures.. I couldn't live without even one of those plugins anymore. If, however, google would be able to support the exact same plugins without modification... then I'd switch in a heartbeat. (and probably switch back soon because of the lack of something else I didn't think of.. *g*)
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btw @Himangshu: try out PlayOnLinux. its a toolset to install games & apps with wine (configures wineprefix and so on).. google chrome is installable easyily with it. and it works surprisingly good. its not the same as a real linux-chromium, but its a start
Probably that's the best feature of Chrome so far. A site crash on one tab will not cause the browser to crash. This is because chrome is a multi-threaded process. Each tab is a separate thread with its own memory space.
But, I'm waiting for Chromium to be released for Linux. I know there is a software called Wine. But, can a Wine emulated Chrome give the same security as the Chrome itself, when I would check my mailbox?
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