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Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome
An anonymous reader writes "Google quietly released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, which not only blows its rivals out of the water as far as performance is concerned, but comes with half a dozen new features, including direct integration of Adobe Flash. First benchmarks show that the new beta is about 10% faster than the previous beta in the SunSpider and V8 benchmark, and about 30% faster than Chrome 4, which remains the fastest JavaScript browser available today."
Of course it can. It would take you about 5 seconds to google that.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chrome+adblock
if no protocol is defines (say "http://") then their browser uses the default search engine. Of course this is Google by default, but it is realy easily changeable. Chrome (not Chromium!) asks you what search engine you want to use on the firts run.
After a while this one bar gets adiciting!
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The most casual of testing of Opera 10.53 on my own C2D e8400 just yielded a Sunspider result of...
"Total: 312.0ms +/- 13.9%"
If speed is such an important marketing factor then why aren't we hearing more about opera?
I don't really like Opera and don't use it because of my UI preferences, but about six months ago when I last compared html (not javascript) rendering speeds, Opera was the only browser that could smoothly scroll through the large text and image laden pages I used as benchmarks. Safari was the slowest, skipping entire screens of content as it experienced rendering hiccups, and Chrome (I tested Chrome 3) was pretty bad too. I tried Chrome 4 later and saw a lot of improvement, but it still didn't have the performance of Opera. This was all on an i7 system.
I'm hoping a newer version of Chrome will make up the difference, but then I still need it to run a real adblock, not the current "load the image and then hide it" version.
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I think GP is confused by the browser sending what you type in the omnibar to Google for search and url suggestions. If you're not comfortable with this (I find it quite useful) you can turn it off in Options. And of course it is always off in incognito mode.
The next version of Firefox with have plugins in a seperate process. The rest of the project is still going to take some more time.
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problem is Adblock on Chrome does not block ads, it only hides them. All the ads still get loaded and all their tracking scripts still track you and run in the background.
You're misinformed. That's just a (off by default) recently introduced function; Opera always was damn snappy overall.
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ps axu | grep libflashplayer | grep $LOGNAME | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill
Err, you might want to consider replacing all that nonsense with something like
ps -U username | awk '/[l]ibflashplayer/ {print $2}"
Better yet, use pgrep/pkill
This is important to people on satellite, 3G, or the Southern Hemisphere, all of which have transfer caps on the order of 5 GB per month per subscriber.
That tells me a lot about the way you process and distribute information. I can personally vouch that there is definitely no transfer cap for the absolute majority of people in the country where I live, which is in the southern hemisphere. I am pretty certain the 5 GB number was also pulled from the same area of your ass where the rest of your "information" exists.
I will not comment on satellite connections or 3G(although unlimited bandwidth plans are fairly common) since unlike you I try to make sure that I have reliable information at hand before spreading it around as if it was fact.
PDF itself is an open format, perfectly capable of being displayed efficiently and safely. What's the problem with putting it in a browser Window?
Remember, GP was talking about Linux. While we could use acroread, there's also things like Okular, which opens nearly instantaneously to display PDFs. On OS X, there's Preview -- same situation. Both display PDFs at least as accurately as Acrobat.
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Chrome allows you to hide ads through extensions but if you really don't want any bandwidth used on them at all why not use Privoxy, eliminate AdBlock extensions in all the web browsers you use, and enjoy an ad-free web experience? That way whatever browser you decide you want to use at any given time has ad-blocking because Privoxy filters it all out. I realize there are some certain scenarios where an extension would be preferable (or the only option) but for most cases Privoxy is by far the better solution rather than adding more on top of your web browser, introducing more possible points of weakness in performance or anything else.
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That is a very interesting addition, but not good enough.
The options for scripts are: keep blocking and unblock permanently. There is no "unblock for this session." I'm not 100% sure what it is doing, but it does not seem to be managing scripts that were pulled onto the page from other domains. I can only unblock the site I'm on. If the page has a link that pulls in scripts from other domains, I can't manage that without figureing out what is going on myself (reading the page source?)
Cookies are even worse. There is no option to add the current site to the whitelist, just to open the cookie manager where you can type the current site into the whitelist by hand. There is no "allow cookie for session."
This is a step in the right direction, but it is a baby step, and doesn't reach the level of: usable yet.
No, that is completely wrong. Opera was the fastest browser by far until some time after 9.5 was released. After that, Apple introduced their new JS engine. For a year or so Opera was no longer the fastest. Now Opera is the fastest at JS again.
So Opera has traditionally been the fastest, and now is the fastest again.
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Is this because of specific gripes you have with existing PDF plugins, or on a more general level?
Although I despise Adobe Reader, I find Safari's PDF implementation to be quite good on Macs (although this could be because OSX's treatment of PDF in general is top-notch, lightning-fast, and very deeply integrated into the windowing system)
You can also get similar functionality for Firefox on mac.
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This is somewhat incorrect. This particular chrome addon https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/chmimgmjdabgiilljdjfbonifbhiglao?hl=en has ability to convert the firefox adblock+ lists into a sort of native chrome version of the lists that can actually block ads, as you can see from this screenshot https://chrome.google.com/extensions/img/chmimgmjdabgiilljdjfbonifbhiglao/1269556063.0/screenshot_big/1?hl=en (use blocking rules). It does have a simpler interface than adblock+ for Firefox, however.