I used to hold this opinion (benchmarks != real world speed) until recently. But I have found that the test results compare favourably to real world usage. For example Google wave is sluggish on firefox while chrome has no problems with it.
As usual, Firefox performance on the v8 benchmark is pathetic where Chrome is more than 10 times faster.It is 24% faster than version 3.5.4 in V8 but it is clearly not enough. In the sunspider test, chrome is 2 times as fast as firefox. In this test, 3.6 is 17% faster than 3.5.4. Safari too comfortably beats Firefox in both these benchmarks
I'm not current on development for the Mac, but I've heard that multiple processes can't share a single window in OS/X.
Do you happen to know how Chrome works around this, or is this not an actual limitation?
I'm not a mac dev and what i'm posting here is gleaned from several svn log entries. So it might be wrong and inaccurate:). The chrome architecture is that there is a main process which handles the UI and there is one process per site which is launched but do not handle the UI. In Mac, the one process per site works but if you open up Activity Monitor you will see that the additional processes are shown as "Not responding" though in reality they are.
What is happening here is that OS-X expects the additional processes to respond to UI events and since they don't mark them as "Not Responding". Two solutions have been proposed
1. have dummy code which responds to UI events to keep OS-X happy
2. Rip out the Cocoa code from the additional processes which will make OS-X not expect the process to respond to UI events.
I have been following chrome for mac development closely on my blog with weekly updates. Here is a list of the functionality as of Build 17426
What Works
* Almost All Websites
* Bookmark pages
* Most visited sites
* Open link in new tab
* Open new tabs
* Omnibox
* Back, Forward, Reload
* Open link in new window
* Drag a tab to make a window
* Launch new tab
* Cut, Copy, Paste
* Keyboard shortcuts
* about:version, about:dns, about:crash, about:histograms
* Find in page
* History with search
* Form Fill
* Delete Thumbnail in New Tab Page
* Window Positions Remembered
* View Source with synatx highlighting and clickable links
What Doesn't Work
* Plugins (No flash -> No youtube)
* Bookmarks Bar
* Print
* about:network, about:memory
* Web Inspector
* Input methods such as Kotoeri (Japanese)
* Preferences (Partial implementation)
* Full Screen Browsing
* Favicon (thanks brin)
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Anyway, chrome beta is coming on nicely and hopefully I will be able to ditch safari for good. [Firefox is my main browser but I do need a second browser].
I have been keeping track of mac chrome and in the last two months it has become quite stable and only thing missing is flash. Some here would even consider that a feature.
I was not advocating for themes. But choice is good. My firefox theme is the default one because it is really good now. But in the past I have used many other themes because I didn't like the default theme.
Also I'm not advocating for feature creep but rather for plugins. I rather like the firefox model in that also.
But some features like folder watching should exist in the client IMHO
As far as I know, except for visualization plugins there are no true plugins. What is listed in Apple site are uitilities which exist outside of iTunes. Show me a plugin which adds a feature to iTunes and can be managed from iTunes ?
iTunes is touted as a music management program. Most of us have a well structured Music folder. What if you buy DRM free MP3 music online ? Or free music available from indie bands ? You should be adding them manually to the iTunes library ? I don't think so.
The best wireless router I had is from Buffalo. It is switched on 24/7 and I never had any problems. It is also damn easy to install tomato on it though for some models like WHR G125 you need to install a special version of tomato.
For the record, Chandrayaan I has already been launched and it is on its way to the Moon. Also it is not Indo-Russian mission. It is purely an Indian Mission.
In the original summary I had given the number correctly.
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For once RTFA
The virus even synchronizes the machines via atom clocks so the activation will not happen before January 5th, even if the clock of the computer is incorrect.
If the virus writer is smart enough to generate pseudo random urls of which 90% are false, he is smart enough not to trust the computer clock.
It uses some crazy javascript to do that.:).Also look at the left panel.You can
change the format to a single page and increase/decrease font size without reloading the page.
Javascript is required for making text appear in columns.(I think mozilla has recently added
CSS support for doing exactly this).
IHT is my favourite news site. Aesthetically pleasing and no intrusive ads.Anyone has any idea
how IHT makes money off the website (or do they?).
"A multipurpose robotic arm then extends underneath the cow and, guided by laser and photo sensors, cleans and dries each teat before attaching vacuum milking cups."
Slashdot Mirror
I used to hold this opinion (benchmarks != real world speed) until recently. But I have found that the test results compare favourably to real world usage. For example Google wave is sluggish on firefox while chrome has no problems with it.
No, I (or rather chrome devs) meant Cocoa. Take a look the relevant bug discussion
You can use chromium if you don't want to use the google branded Chrome. Chromium will not send any data to anyone.
I'm not current on development for the Mac, but I've heard that multiple processes can't share a single window in OS/X.
Do you happen to know how Chrome works around this, or is this not an actual limitation?
I'm not a mac dev and what i'm posting here is gleaned from several svn log entries. So it might be wrong and inaccurate :). The chrome architecture is that there is a main process which handles the UI and there is one process per site which is launched but do not handle the UI. In Mac, the one process per site works but if you open up Activity Monitor you will see that the additional processes are shown as "Not responding" though in reality they are.
What is happening here is that OS-X expects the additional processes to respond to UI events and since they don't mark them as "Not Responding". Two solutions have been proposed
1. have dummy code which responds to UI events to keep OS-X happy
2. Rip out the Cocoa code from the additional processes which will make OS-X not expect the process to respond to UI events.
I have been following chrome for mac development closely on my blog with weekly updates. Here is a list of the functionality as of Build 17426
What Works
* Almost All Websites
* Bookmark pages
* Most visited sites
* Open link in new tab
* Open new tabs
* Omnibox
* Back, Forward, Reload
* Open link in new window
* Drag a tab to make a window
* Launch new tab
* Cut, Copy, Paste
* Keyboard shortcuts
* about:version, about:dns, about:crash, about:histograms
* Find in page
* History with search
* Form Fill
* Delete Thumbnail in New Tab Page
* Window Positions Remembered
* View Source with synatx highlighting and clickable links
What Doesn't Work
* Plugins (No flash -> No youtube)
* Bookmarks Bar
* Print
* about:network, about:memory
* Web Inspector
* Input methods such as Kotoeri (Japanese)
* Preferences (Partial implementation)
* Full Screen Browsing
* Favicon (thanks brin)
Anyway, chrome beta is coming on nicely and hopefully I will be able to ditch safari for good. [Firefox is my main browser but I do need a second browser].
I have been keeping track of mac chrome and in the last two months it has become quite stable and only thing missing is flash. Some here would even consider that a feature.
At least it is in one place. Here it seems files are scattered all over the place and in non obvious locations.
"Empty cache", doesn't delete everything.
before: 737M -Caches-
after: 571M -Caches-
This is seriously fucked up.
There dare daily builds available for all platforms here http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/ For the mac build, to get an idea about what status it is in and what works and what doesn't you can see my post on it http://www.manu-j.com/blog/download-updated-native-google-chrome-for-mac-os-x/230/
It has given me a new appreciation for slashdot moderation!
Please check out the songbird player. It may not do everything you have listed but it does support quite a few
I was not advocating for themes. But choice is good. My firefox theme is the default one because it is really good now. But in the past I have used many other themes because I didn't like the default theme. Also I'm not advocating for feature creep but rather for plugins. I rather like the firefox model in that also. But some features like folder watching should exist in the client IMHO
As far as I know, except for visualization plugins there are no true plugins. What is listed in Apple site are uitilities which exist outside of iTunes. Show me a plugin which adds a feature to iTunes and can be managed from iTunes ? iTunes is touted as a music management program. Most of us have a well structured Music folder. What if you buy DRM free MP3 music online ? Or free music available from indie bands ? You should be adding them manually to the iTunes library ? I don't think so.
FTP to desktop ? Which FTP client allows you to type commands like "cd a:" ?
The best wireless router I had is from Buffalo. It is switched on 24/7 and I never had any problems. It is also damn easy to install tomato on it though for some models like WHR G125 you need to install a special version of tomato.
For the record, Chandrayaan I has already been launched and it is on its way to the Moon. Also it is not Indo-Russian mission. It is purely an Indian Mission.
Is there a way to run both firefox and Paradiso without affeting firefox settings and extensions etc ?
In the original summary I had given the number correctly.
It uses some crazy javascript to do that. :).Also look at the left panel.You can
change the format to a single page and increase/decrease font size without reloading the page.
Javascript is required for making text appear in columns.(I think mozilla has recently added
CSS support for doing exactly this).
IHT is my favourite news site. Aesthetically pleasing and no intrusive ads.Anyone has any idea how IHT makes money off the website (or do they?).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/60225255/in
Which is the best mobile phone review site, which covers not just the high end phones?
Why wouldn't the same cracking tools appear for windows ? It is not like they are dependent on some OS feature.