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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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  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. 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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  4. 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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  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. 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.