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2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the ooh-shiny dept.

AlienRancher writes "Google launched this morning a new beta version of Chrome 2.0: 'The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.' Other enhancements include user script support (greasemonkey-like) and form auto-fill." And reader Lee Mathews adds news of the open source version, Chromium, on Linux: "Not only has Chromium gotten easier to take for a test drive thanks to the personal package archive for Ubuntu Chrome daily build team, but development on the browser is also progressing nicely. Despite being a very early build, Chromium on Linux feels solid and boasts the same blazing speed the Windows users have been enjoying for months."

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  1. Re:Wake me up when... by tpgp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Edit your hosts file to block all ad servers. Its quick and painless.

    Not as quick & painless as Adblock. Especially when it comes to maintenance.

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  2. Re:Wake me up when... by cryptoluddite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Edit your hosts file to block all ad servers. Its quick and painless.

    www.example.com/index.html
    www.example.com/ads/annoying.swf

    When people say they want adblock and noscript and you say "just edit your hosts file" you sound like another fanboy making up excuses. When I was using adblock I had */ads/* and a bunch of others that are not even possible with a hosts file.

    As for NoScript, I'm not a huge fan of it (its more of a pain then anything else

    Wha? NoScript can occasionally be a mild hassle, but it basically automatically block all annoying ads automatically AND all that useless unrendered crap like google-analytics AND in practice it makes your browsing a hell of a lot more secure than separate processes.

  3. Re:Chrome - Feels Like A Running A New Computer by Twinbee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not enough importance and effort is given to latency with software. Clicking between tabs, resizing windows, opening/closing tabs, clicking back/forward (which isn't ideal in Chrome btw), opening and closing the software - they all are underrated imo.

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