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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."
IE6 and even Firefox are already huge. I definitely plan to stick to Firefox. First of all, if it ain't broke, why break it?
...and I like Google -- and I really wanted to like Chrome, as well (after all, competition is good). But viewing the bite-size videos (how about a single overview, rather than having to keep clicking for a snippet on each feature?), I didn't see anything useful -- only a lot of integration with Google Search. Guys, I already have Google as my start page. I don't need a toolbar, custom browser, or especially any spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsearch application to snoop through^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hindex my hard drive. Do no evil? Well, maybe. But their brand of "good" has rather long tentacles these days.
...and you kids stay the heck off my lawn, too.
I guess it's this newfangled "cloud computing" thing. I'm condemning myself to the old-curmudgeon category by saying this, but they can have my local apps when they pry them from my cold dead hard drive. I'd rather build a computer from scratch and write my own apps in machine code than trust "the cloud" to keep my information safe and secure.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Are these the same semis that run the latest games?
Is a browser an Xbox or an SGML viewer?
General programmers stopped doing assembly when people realized they weren't as productive as with higher level code.
200MB+??????? Yeah. Right.
Like when I could run Mac code on an Intel platform?
Virtual Mac. How about IE5 on the Mac? Where did that go?
Anyway the Google code is open sourced. If that's corralling then I hate to see what your idea of free is?
Ah, yes, open source. Like the EULA. Open source doesn't necessarily connote free. Ask any Mozilla developer.
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The kind of ads Google show are not the kind that annoy and distract. Image ad-blocking is no threat to them. Can AdBlock Plus even block the Google ads?
Hundreds of megabytes to display a dozen web pages? Single process or multiple process, that's just bullshit. Chrome, IE8, and Firefox all sound ridiculously bloated.