Seriously though, what exactly is accomplished here? Their goal with Chrome was to get the other browser developers to accelerate their javascript parsers/engines, and that seems to have worked fine - all (most) of them are now rushing to announce new, accelerated versions.
Why bother with more "we're still faster, catch us if you can!" teasing? Even the demos that they themselves commissioned don't do anything *useful* -- it's like you said, they max out the CPU. Great. Do you have an example of a real-world web application that does that?
If not, I'd rather see that time spent getting a proper version for Linux, and extension support.
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Seriously though, what exactly is accomplished here? Their goal with Chrome was to get the other browser developers to accelerate their javascript parsers/engines, and that seems to have worked fine - all (most) of them are now rushing to announce new, accelerated versions. Why bother with more "we're still faster, catch us if you can!" teasing? Even the demos that they themselves commissioned don't do anything *useful* -- it's like you said, they max out the CPU. Great. Do you have an example of a real-world web application that does that? If not, I'd rather see that time spent getting a proper version for Linux, and extension support.
With shells like these who needs anemones?...