Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed 140
eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."
You can bash Google all you want (Score:5, Insightful)
But this is seriously cool stuff.
This is marketing which probably only really appeals to geeks. Most companies these days are much more worries about the "casual" audience at large.
Google remains true to its origins and is proud of it.
So, yeah, you can say this is all a plan to become the big brother, bring profit to their shareholders or whatever. To me it's just plain neat and I'm glad we have Google around to make sure the other players are kept in check.
Re:You can bash Google all you want (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm glad we have Google around to make sure the other players are kept in check.
And vice versa.
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Cool video but probably not as impressive when you don't load from the page cache and add network latency and overloaded webservers to the mix.
slim edge of the wedge (Score:5, Insightful)
how many of us here have installed for friends or family because of features that likely appeal mostly or only to geeks? The vast majority of my extended family uses firefox right now because I put in on there and hid IE on them until they got used to it.
Market to the geeks, and the plebs will follow. If for nothing else than they don't want to seem out of the loop
Re:You can bash Google all you want (Score:5, Insightful)
Set up 20 pages as your homepage in Firefox.
Now open those same 20 pages in chrome and set them as the pages shown when you open a new instance of Chome.
Now close both of them.
Now open Firefox. See how it lags your system and can only max out one of your processors?
Now open Chrome. See how it pegs all 4 of your cores to 100% for about 2 seconds, and then is done rendering?
Firefox is so slow at opening my homepages, that it hangs the Windows 7 UI. And before you ask, yes, I have about 20 pages set to my homepage and visit them all multiple times/day-- market news blogs, forums, websites, etc-- most of which an RSS feed is not sufficient.