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Chrome Vs. IE 8

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-em-up dept.

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."

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  1. Chrome iPhone by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Chrome iPhone by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

      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....

  2. Re:How Ironic by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    How ironic.

  3. The matchup: Beta vs. Beta! by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".)

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  4. Re:Firefox Damage Control Is More Than Enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:But we can already crash EVERY tab at once by Stormwatch · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    See? Google does NOT do evil!

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