Chrome Vs. IE 8

snydeq writes "Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 herald a new, resource-intensive era in Web browsing, one sure to shift our conception of acceptable minimum system requirements, InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy concludes in his head-to-head comparison of the recently announced multi-process, tabbed browsers. Whereas single-process browsers such as Firefox aim for lean, efficient browsing experiences, Chrome and IE 8 are all about delivering a robust platform for reliably running multiple Web apps in a tabbed format in answer to the Web's evolving needs. To do this, Chrome takes a 'purist' approach, launching multiple, discrete processes to isolate and protect each tab's contents. IE 8, on the other hand, goes hybrid, creating multiple instances of the iexplore.exe process without specifically assigning each tab to its own instance. 'Google's purist approach will ultimately prove more robust,' Kennedy argues, 'but at a cost in terms of resource consumption.' At what cost? Kennedy's comparison found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB. This, and recent indications that IE 8 itself consumes more resources than XP, surely announce a new, very demanding era in Web-centric computing."

Comments

Chrome iPhone

[oldhack]

Stick Chrome with iPhone and you can run them stories to fill up a whole week.

Re:Chrome iPhone

[commodoresloat]

should be easy for google to do coz all they have to do to get that going is adapt their OS X version to the version that the iPhone uses... oh wait....

The browser is irrelevant to applications!

[David Gerard]

Microsoft was unfazed. "Browsers donâ(TM)t need to be integrated with online apps," said marketing developer Ian Moulster. "Certainly not like the operating system ... Iâ(TM)ll just get back to you."

Re:How Ironic

[commodoresloat]

So, in other words, his comment actually conveyed the precise opposite of "irony."

How ironic.

The matchup: Beta vs. Beta!

[pushing-robot]

Does anyone else think that benchmarking early builds is useless? Of course they're not particularly efficient yet - premature optimization and all that. Wake me when the final builds roll around.

(Of course, that brings up another issue: What the rest of the world calls "Version 3.0", Google calls "Beta". And what the rest of the world calls "Beta", Microsoft calls "Version 3.0".)

Re:Welcome to 64bit

[quazee]

And by running tabs in separate processes, Google sidesteps the need for a native 64-bit browser and *plugins*.
After all, 2GB per tab should be enough for everyone.

Re:Firefox Damage Control Is More Than Enough

[Anonymous Coward]

Forget the IPhone. The AMount of dAmage conTROL and FUD coming out of the Firefox camp is enough to fiLl every news and discussion board on the Net.

There. You said it all there.

Re:But we can already crash EVERY tab at once

[Stormwatch]

Simply inserting an a href linking to "evil:%" crashes chrome.

See? Google does NOT do evil!

Re:"Thin" won't be "in"

[ceoyoyo]

I see a future where the hot new thing is lean, fast "local" applications that are compiled so they run right on your own computer, no browser needed. They will have several advantages besides speed and working better on older computers. Foremost among these, if the network goes down you can keep working, and you keep control of your private data at all times.

I think I'll call it Web 3.0.

Re:Not a bad thing.

[plover]

Hardware advances mostly for games, media and business needs.

Actually, AC, while I don't think you are absolutely correct, you may be on to something there. It's widely believed that many of the advances in home electronics, home theater, computing and networking were due to porn more than any other factor. So if we use that as a starting base, perhaps Chrome was created for a different reason. Maybe it is really destined to be the Ultimate Porn Surfing Engine.

Just think: It'll start small. Google will use Chrome compatibility to partner with porn web operators to offer to protect their site content, and securely ensure payments. It'll work great, and soon all porn sites jump ship and start relying on the Chrome browser. Porn will no longer be viewable on IE or FF, so the world switches completely to Chrome. At that point, Google knows they have the entire internet by its collective short and curlies (almost literally), and that's when they SQUEEZE.

God help us all, we've uncovered it: Chrome's really a plot to take over the world!

Re:Resources?

[cerberusss]

You can not kill the Browser process, but you can kill any other.

I found that out as well! I installed Chrome, ran it for the first time and after a bit of surfing I wanted to close the window. When I clicked the red X in the upper right of the window, out of my speakers came this strange voice, booming "YOU CAN NOT KILL TEH BROWSER PROCESSSSSSS".

I was like OMG!!!