Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8 152
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Early tests with Google's Chrome Frame found IE8 runs 9.6 times faster than usual. The testers ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite." The other question is what is the performance hit of using the Frame plug-in instead of running the browser natively.
benchmarks always forget the user experience (Score:5, Interesting)
However it seems like they only measured JavaScript engine, which by no means contribute everything to how fast browser or browsing feels. And everyone probably knew already that Google's JavaScript engine outperforms MS's (and being one of the main thing Google's thing use, they have a reason to optimize it till its dead)
This seems to be the usual thing with other browser benchmarks too, they only benchmark the javascript engines and similar under the hood things. Yeah it's easier, but it doesn't really tell the truth.
User interactions and GUI responsiveness contribute a lot, actually even more so, to how fast browsing feels. IE is horrible with this and has always been; everything lacks behind, scrolling is galaxies far from smooth and the general feeling is just bad. On that note, Firefox suffers a bit from the same things. I think only Opera and Chrome have done UI responsiveness good. Which also brings the question, does Chrome Frame improve it on IE too?
EEE (Score:4, Interesting)
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
This speaks a lot for Google (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Whats the point... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:benchmarks always forget the user experience (Score:5, Interesting)
There are actually other points you can look at. Things like how fast the browser starts rendering the page while its loading makes a huge difference too. If you sit there waiting for the page to load and looking at white/previous page, its slow. If the browser starts immediately rendering the loading page, atleast something is happening. MS improved this a lot in Win7 too. Just if you see that something is happening or whats loading, it feels faster than just waiting. Of course feel is hard to benchmark, so they usually don't, but it counts a lot too.
So just for giggles... (Score:5, Interesting)
...what's the ACID3 results for such a combo?
Re:So just for giggles... (Score:5, Interesting)
100%, Fool!
Proof : http://static.macgeneration.com/img/2009/07/googlexhrometestacid-20090922-225255.jpg
Re:Defeats the purpose of IE (Score:2, Interesting)
It only uses the Chrome engines for pages that ask for it, or that the user chooses to use it for, the rest get handled by the host IE.
The situation where a corp forces you to use IE because of crap intranet apps, but can't be bothered managing two browsers is exactly one of the prime use cases for this. Particularly if they then buy a brand spanking new application which would run 8 times faster in any browser other than IE.
Re:Safety Warning. (Score:3, Interesting)
In other words, just use Google Chrome itself. That way you do not have to worry about the additional IE vulnerabilities.
A good idea (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:benchmarks always forget the user experience (Score:5, Interesting)
This! ^
Benchmarks aside, I feel like Chrome is the slowest thing on earth, because I see NOTHING until the page is finished loading. I try to be objective. I'll load the same page in Chrome and in FF. True, the page FINISHES about the same time, but with FF, I can see bits and pieces as they become available. Since I am interested in the text most of the time, it doesn't matter how long it takes for some other element to load - I'm never going to look at it. I WANT MY TEXT NOW!!
That said - I agree with those who say web pages are to complicated today. Add in useless bloat like flash, advertising, etc. I can't browse any faster today with DSL than I did a few years ago with dial up! Something is badly wrong here.