Chrome buries Windows rivals in browser drag race.

Greetz.

Came across this and thought i'd share it. **Opera fanboy's, i guess it's time to start eating your hats.. ::bandit::

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Google's new Chrome 3.0 is the fastest of the top five Windows browsers, and beats every rival, including Apple's Safari, by comfortable margins, benchmark tests show.
Both Chrome and Safari use the open-source WebKit browser engine.
According to tests run by Computerworld, Chrome 3.0, which Google launched last week, is the fastest production version of the top five Windows browsers. Chrome renders JavaScript more than nine times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), is over five times faster than Opera Software's Opera 10, two-and-a-half times faster than Firefox 3.5 and 30% faster than Safari 4.0.

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Original article over at <ComputerWorld>

To bad nobody uses Safari or Chrome for that matter.

I don't even think most people know what Chrome is and some how i don't think ill be switching to it from FireFox.

Only problem is that Chrome lags behind all others in the normal features that people have come to expect from a browser. Really a shame because chrome is quite nice, just kind of lacking in the areas that other more mature browsers aren't.

Alright.. .. nice article.. I haven't gone through it completely but ..


** OPERA RULES **

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Originally Posted by Syini666

Only problem is that Chrome lags behind all others in the normal features that people have come to expect from a browser. Really a shame because chrome is quite nice, just kind of lacking in the areas that other more mature browsers aren't.

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only a matter of time before some of the shell browsers adapt to use its engine.

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Originally Posted by Syini666

Only problem is that Chrome lags behind all others in the normal features that people have come to expect from a browser. Really a shame because chrome is quite nice, just kind of lacking in the areas that other more mature browsers aren't.

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Care to elaborate?

Anti-Rick Rolling pluggins.

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Originally Posted by The-Spec

Anti-Rick Rolling pluggins.

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lol ... No, it has those. :D

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Originally Posted by westin

Care to elaborate?

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it really has no features to speak of. I finally downloaded it. It's fast opening and loading pages, but I didn't even find any groups feature, or the ability to open all the bookmarks in a particular folder. No mouse gestures, toolbar isn't all that customizable.

Chrome is my browser of choice now actually. I used to be a firefox buff, but so far I've found Chrome to indeed be the fastest launching browser on my machine. The downside is you don't have the nice bells-and-whistles of Firefox in terms of add-ons, but for those of us who just want a bare bones browser, it does the job nicely.

I'm a "Browser Bitch" basically... I know what I like, and what I don't like, and use this:

Windows -

Opera

That was quick...

Linux -

Opera

Galeon when possible

Dillo

Epiphany

If I need to find something quick and I know exactly what I'm looking for and don't need graphics, I switch to a VT and use these:

Links
Lynx
E-Links

They don't use a GUI and are text based so no graphics, no slow downs waiting on images, nothing.

On FreeBSD I use the same browsers I do on Linux.

I still miss Netscape. The REAL Netscape. It was decently fast on my boxes with version 4.X - Version 9 which I still have because I like it.

What about security? Werent there some open security issues a while back with google chrome?

The only thing that ever kept me from even downloading chrome was the fact that someone told me its a security hazard to use chrome. Or am i that much behind with updates to that matter?

So far opera suits all my needs for my everday browsing.

Cheers.

//addon.
Im currently testing midori, a super lightweight browser, and so far it looks pretty cool to me. Anyone else tried it?

I don't know much about this, but I would imagine that Midori has pretty much the same security issues as Chrome (not that I'm saying that Chrome is any less secure that other browsers) since they both use the WebKit engine.

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