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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. I'll wait for Chrome 11... by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...because it's 1 version more.

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    1. 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

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

      JavaScript pages should now load 12% faster than in previous versions, and Chrome 10 beats IE9 by at least 50% in a JavaScript benchmark.

      Cool story, bro. I'll wait a little bit until I get these same features in Chromium. Won't take long.

      It is good this way. You don't care about your privacy then you help Google advertise so you help fund the people doing most of the coding. The rest of us thank you for that. You do care about your privacy then you find yourself in a tiny minority that can be treated like a rounding error if you're an advertiser the size of Google.

      This way everyone gets what they want. The world is more ideal than it often seems.

  2. 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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    1. Re:Waste my Time! by Russ1642 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Worse. My flipping of the "pages" was interrupted by an ad. I don't know why people want humanoid robots because it's obvious that if they're anything like the electronics we have now they're just going to be rude, annoying, obnoxious, fucking assholes.

    2. Re:Waste my Time! by Asclepius99 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't know why people want humanoid robots because it's obvious that if they're anything like the electronics we have now they're just going to be rude, annoying, obnoxious, fucking assholes.

      So what you're saying is that you're afraid we wouldn't be able to tell them apart from humans?

  3. lol javascript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Javascript benchmarkS? You mean chrome's own benchmark? Because it's scoring less in SunSpider, and it's certainly not beating IE9 in it. Not that this matters a whole lot, anyway.

  4. 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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  5. If you can make complete junk run real fast by countertrolling · · Score: 3

    You might be able to pretend you're not running complete junk. The benchmark should use a heavy Slashdot comment page. If it can load in three seconds, you gotta winner.

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. NoScript? by AnotherScratchMonkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm still waiting for NoScript, so I can use Chrome without being blasted with pop-unders and unwanted noisy video ads. Until then, I'll suffer the slowness of Firefox.

  9. one example of faster being slower by _Shorty-dammit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Firefox is still faster in at least one real-world web app that matters to me. A free GPS smartphone app called Waze lets you edit and make corrections to the map by signing in to your account on their website. Their editor at http://www.waze.com/cartouche/ is where you make these edits, and Firefox is amazingly responsive with this web app. Chrome, on the other hand, has been getting more and more aggravating to use with this app. User input responsiveness has been getting worse and worse ever since Google starting making huge gains in their javascript performance. If I click on a road segment in Firefox it pretty much instantly gets selected and highlighted. There is a very large delay in doing the same thing in Chrome. In Firefox, if I click on some point in the map and drag to move my view of the map, the map starts moving right away. If I do the same in Chrome I get the same glacial delay before it starts moving the map, and every time you drag the mouse before letting go of the mouse button there is the same delay before your movement translates to movement of the map. In fact, any and all user interactions with the app involves an awful lot of delay. And why, I don't know. How come it's perfectly fluid in Firefox, and in Chrome it's an exercise in patience? If Chrome is *that* much faster, why is it an insane amount slower to edit Waze maps with it?

  10. 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.

  11. My accidental benchmark by DusterBar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Last year, my daughter and I did a web page that generates mazes because she loves mazes and was amazed that I told her that the computer can be made to make one.

    Trying it on IE8, I thought the page was broken. It took almost all day to complete what FF and Safari and Chrome did in seconds.

    I then added some instrumentation and other HTML/DOM layouts to test the browsers. You can see this at http://sinz.org/Maze/

    By the way, IE9 RC is much better but still an order of magnitude behind Chrome.