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First Look At Chrome 10

Posted by timothy on from the new-shiny-pretty-ok dept.

jbrodkin writes "Boosted JavaScript performance, Adobe Flash sandboxing, password encryption and an overhauled settings interface are among the new features in Google Chrome 10. JavaScript pages should now load 12% faster than in previous versions, and Chrome 10 beats IE9 by at least 50% in a JavaScript benchmark."

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  1. Waste my Time! by rueger · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ack! TFA is a seven or eight page "slideshow" that has pretty much zero actual comment. What a waste.

    And I actually really LIKE Chrome (on the PC; Opera on the phone).

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  2. What benchmark? by benjymouse · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA is a little thin - it is basically a slideshow.

    Still, IE9 beats out Chrome 10 in webkits own sunspider benchmark. On my old rig:
    IE9: 348.2ms +/- 0.8%
    Chrome: 446.0ms +/- 1.9%

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    1. Re:What benchmark? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/

      Looks like it was a bad optimisation...

      The real problem with sunspider is that the code is too short to optimise well, so javascript optimisation overhead can swamp the test.
      Kraken is more of an extended sunspider.

      http://m8y.org/tmp/kraken.xhtml

  3. Dupe? by supersloshy · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 10"

    Is it really this hard for /. editors to use the handy little search function this site provides and see if a story is a dupe? This story was even posted two days ago (albeit on a different website but it's pretty much the same thing).

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  4. Re:I'll wait for Chrome 11... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    No need to wait. The beta Chrome 11 is out.

    In fact, why stop there?

    Chrome 12 is available now: http://www.conceivablytech.com/6141/products/google-chrome-12-surfaces

  5. Re: JavaScript the fastest feature that is turned by jjohnson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because people like you who turn JavaScript off are tiny minority of users. Almost everyone else actually uses and enjoys it.

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  6. Re:Master Password by BlortHorc · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does it have a master password yet? Until then there's no way I can use it.

    Though the 7 slides in TFA contain almost no content at all, this was in fact one of the questions answered: yes, they now have a master password.