Well ive been hearing about chrome and now finally the Dev. release includes extension support so i thought i'd try it out.
I have a White Macbook 1.1 2ghz core duo 2GB Ram and im using version 4.0.302.2 of Chrome.
First thing you notice about Chrome is its speed! its fast as hell and does launch faster than safari and firefox of course. It loads javascript faster than any other browser i've used but safari comes close.
Since the Developer release now include extension i thought i'd try some out. The first one was adblock of course and the other was "one number"
Im also a huge greasemonkey fan so im was hoping chrome had an extension similiar to it, well it turns out i didnt even need an extension, chrome has build in greasemonkey script support! i just click on the script and install it and im done!
Now here comes the bad part. After installing those 2 extensions and 3 user scripts chromes start up time increased significantly, but still faster then firefox but slower than safari.
A big disappointment for me was Chromes Flash support. We all know adobe has poor support for the mac but the cpu usage on chrome was ridiculous. I visit the same site all three browsers and firefox used 15% of my cpu , safari used 8% and chrome used about 50% ! on the same site ! what was weird was that i was visiting one site but i had 3 sandbox processes, on was taking 10% the other 15% and the other 25%. Im pretty sure one of those processes was adblock, why would adblock need 10% cpu where there weren't any ads and even if they were why would it need 10% constantly as opposed to when loading a site in the beginning. This only happened to sites with flash content.
Another problem going through a few websites while surfing the net chrome would occasionally get stuck at 100% cpu without me doing anything cpu intensive, the only fix was to restart the browser.
Another thing i noticed was at times on websites with that had alot of javascript while chome was the first to load it at times its scrolling wasn't as smooth as safari, i would noticed little hiccups
Overall im happy with the direction chrome is going, i was considering replacing firefox already and it was just a Dev release, not even a beta. If chrome can sort out these little annoyances i could see my self using it as my main browser.
I have a White Macbook 1.1 2ghz core duo 2GB Ram and im using version 4.0.302.2 of Chrome.
First thing you notice about Chrome is its speed! its fast as hell and does launch faster than safari and firefox of course. It loads javascript faster than any other browser i've used but safari comes close.
Since the Developer release now include extension i thought i'd try some out. The first one was adblock of course and the other was "one number"
Im also a huge greasemonkey fan so im was hoping chrome had an extension similiar to it, well it turns out i didnt even need an extension, chrome has build in greasemonkey script support! i just click on the script and install it and im done!
Now here comes the bad part. After installing those 2 extensions and 3 user scripts chromes start up time increased significantly, but still faster then firefox but slower than safari.
A big disappointment for me was Chromes Flash support. We all know adobe has poor support for the mac but the cpu usage on chrome was ridiculous. I visit the same site all three browsers and firefox used 15% of my cpu , safari used 8% and chrome used about 50% ! on the same site ! what was weird was that i was visiting one site but i had 3 sandbox processes, on was taking 10% the other 15% and the other 25%. Im pretty sure one of those processes was adblock, why would adblock need 10% cpu where there weren't any ads and even if they were why would it need 10% constantly as opposed to when loading a site in the beginning. This only happened to sites with flash content.
Another problem going through a few websites while surfing the net chrome would occasionally get stuck at 100% cpu without me doing anything cpu intensive, the only fix was to restart the browser.
Another thing i noticed was at times on websites with that had alot of javascript while chome was the first to load it at times its scrolling wasn't as smooth as safari, i would noticed little hiccups
Overall im happy with the direction chrome is going, i was considering replacing firefox already and it was just a Dev release, not even a beta. If chrome can sort out these little annoyances i could see my self using it as my main browser.
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