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Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the inevitable-compromise dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Can it run adblock, flashblock and noscript? by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

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  2. Re:Can it run adblock, flashblock and noscript? by pitdingo · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Its just not the fastest browser... by hkmwbz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera has historically been very fast at HTML parsing and DOM manipulation - while lagging behind the leaders at JS interpreting speed.

    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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