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Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed
eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."
Your sub-millisecond rendering time enabled me to get FP!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
If you are interested in the behind the scene info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI
I think that was the coolest commercial I have ever seen.
http://wwww.zerospeaks.com
But this is seriously cool stuff.
This is marketing which probably only really appeals to geeks. Most companies these days are much more worries about the "casual" audience at large.
Google remains true to its origins and is proud of it.
So, yeah, you can say this is all a plan to become the big brother, bring profit to their shareholders or whatever. To me it's just plain neat and I'm glad we have Google around to make sure the other players are kept in check.
Masked under a cool CSI-like facade... Next....
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
And yet the AJAX on Slashdot still makes Chrome chug.
Ok Google, I've resisted getting Chrome up until this point but you've sold me. Until it gets some form of Adblock Plus like functionality it likely will not replace Firefox as my general purpose browser but as a backup browser I am going to give it a try now.
Really, I know what I'm doing...Ohhhh, look at the shiny buttons!
I'd like to see these tests run around 6pm, not at 3am, which is the typical time of day when a genius such as this would be performing such diabolical experiments.
Anyone who can explain why the screen in the first example renders from bottom to top?
I would expect it to start rendering at the top.
Cool video but probably not as impressive when you don't load from the page cache and add network latency and overloaded webservers to the mix.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9840543&postcount=11 All the pages loaded from a local source (as seen in the image linked), so this is a render demo only. I will admit that the render speeds are lightning fast and I've come to prefer Chrome over FF for my casual browsing. However, If I'm doing research of any kind, I know I'm going to have some 50+ tabs and until Chrome has a tree style tab plugin, FF has the job.
Most days, I love me some Chrome. But a proper ad blocking solution is an absolute must on Windows.
Google makes money off advertising. I get that. But many ads on the internet pose legitimate security risks.
Give me a Chrome with a proper ad block (that stops the ad from loading, not just hiding it) and I'll use Chrome every day. I'd even subscribe to a filter that blocks other ads, and allows Google ads through.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
It exists! https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom Now we wait for no-script.
Chrome is caching ALL content, even stuff that says "no-cache". While "no-cache" is somewhat broken, things like the horrible "Blackboard" web apps don't really work in Chrome because it's caching things that shouldn't be cached. If Google intends to do this, and encourage this with other browsers, they need to start teaching designers how to properly use caching headers so that Chrome doesn't break usability with it's aggressiveness.
From TFYTV:
The other two examples were indeed from a local disk copy.
how many of us here have installed for friends or family because of features that likely appeal mostly or only to geeks? The vast majority of my extended family uses firefox right now because I put in on there and hid IE on them until they got used to it.
Market to the geeks, and the plebs will follow. If for nothing else than they don't want to seem out of the loop
the preceding post was not spell checked... suck it.
I just checked Chrome out for the first time, and yes it does render pages quickly. But it's no faster (to my naked eye, at least) than Firefox with the NoScript extension running. And since Firefox+NoScript is also blocking scripts, Flash applets, etc. from running, it seems to me that it would be safer than Chrome anyway. YMMV, but I think I'll stick with my Firefox a bit longer.
I'd like to see a rig where they cause multiple computers running one browser each loading the page in the same way versus each of the objects. Or see if lightning could cook a potato before a historic browser finishes rendering.
I'm surprised to see an ad where they introduce the product or brand before the actual video, which is the opposite way from which things are normally done. If my psychology learnings are correct, this is actually more likely to get a strong association (through Pavlovian conditioning) than doing things the 'normal' way. I've often wondered why advertisers don't typically show their product in the first few seconds of the ad. Any ideas?
Ask me about repetitive DNA
When are we going to see this done with firefox, or any other competitive browser for that matter?
I don't know about you, but Slashdot comment pages are slooow for me to load under Firefox 3.6. The initial story block loads quick, the sidebars fill in, and then there's the painful wait for the rest of the page to pop. Large comment sections can take long enough that I get bored and try flipping to another tab -- which doesn't work under Firefox and gives the "app is busy" cursor and shades the window as "not updating".
The latest Chrome: much faster. Zip, zip, done. 600 Comment article gives the busy-cursor for 3 seconds. And during those three seconds I can change tabs. FF 3.6? 8 seconds and the whole window goes to sleep. Same goes for opening a "Reply" section here.
That being said, I don't like Chrome for other reasons and probably won't use it. But it's nice to have something to aim for.
Get off my lawn.
Run demos from IE9's testdrive site. You will see that Opera (without hardware acceleration) destroys all other browsers and keeps up with IE9 (with its hardware acceleration). Truly Astonishing... http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
How many people are using 10+ year old machines? Why does Chrome's rendering speed matter? My machine is over 3 years old and I can't tell the difference in speed. Any decent system will typically be rendering faster than the net will give you the data regardless of browser. Browser wars are last millennium.
These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times.
First line of the description of the video. Granted they could've put it in the title instead of just 'speed', but I think they're being pretty straightforward in stating that this is just a rendering test.
Earlier this week, I attended Web 2.0, a conference in San Francisco. One of the big exhibitors is Microsoft. At their booth was a beautiful woman demonstrating a preview of IE9. At the time, she was demonstrating the graphics performance of IE9, highlighting the fact that they used the graphics controller directly to render the spinning graphics (which looked like a Windows-NT-3GL-screen-saver) much faster than Firefox and slightly faster than Chrome. She mentioned that it was “HTML5 rendering” and pointed to the site where you or I could prove it to ourselves -- http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/. As she stood their beaming, I innocently asked if I could try, and she foolishly agreed to let me browse http://html5test.com/ which gave IE9 a score of 19/160 (BTW, that is what IE8 shows too). Then I tried it with Firefox and got 101/160, and Chrome 118/160. The beautiful woman was taken aback, obviously never having seen this site or acting as such. After learning what the site was about then generally questioning its motives, she dismissed the tests out of hand, saying they were basically irrelevant when compared to Microsoft’s. A gentleman standing next to me replied something like, “browser compatibility has been the biggest issue in developing applications, and now that most other browsers seem to have converged on a common standard, you dismiss it as irrelevant. You demonstrate a new version that will not be out for a year but does not feature any movement toward compatibility with anything but yourself.” The beautiful woman went into damage control, replying that what was being demonstrated was a preview, not even beta, and implied that many things may be added by the time it ships. I hope so, but I doubt it. BTW, others at the kiosk demonstrating Windows Mobile 7 were saying that will ship by the end of the year with IE8 and , of course, Silverlight.
Hate to sound like a broken record, but yes Privoxy works great blocking ads on chrome. Yes, it does block the ads before the it reaches the browser.
I live in the country. The YouTube video just showed the "waiting" circle for ten seconds at a time. But at least I got a connection today. I dread cloud computing.
Wow, your comment sounded like those Spice TV ads. LOL.
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Except the Google toolbar...... WTF. Seriously, do they get how many people are sticking with FF, or even [shudder] IE, just because of that?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
If only pages would load as fast as they can be rendered.
Ceci n'est pas une