First Look At Chrome 10 206
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."
Waste my Time! (Score:5, Informative)
And I actually really LIKE Chrome (on the PC; Opera on the phone).
What benchmark? (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%
Dupe? (Score:5, Informative)
"Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 10 [slashdot.org]"
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).
Re:I'll wait for Chrome 11... (Score:3, Informative)
No need to wait. The beta Chrome 11 is out.
In fact, why stop there?
Chrome 12 is available now: http://www.conceivablytech.com/6141/products/google-chrome-12-surfaces
Re: JavaScript the fastest feature that is turned (Score:5, Informative)
Because people like you who turn JavaScript off are tiny minority of users. Almost everyone else actually uses and enjoys it.
Re:Master Password (Score:3, Informative)
Does it have a master password yet? Until then there's no way I can use it.
Though the 7 slides in TFA contain almost no content at all, this was in fact one of the questions answered: yes, they now have a master password.
Re:What benchmark? (Score:1, Informative)
http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/
Looks like it was a bad optimisation...
The real problem with sunspider is that the code is too short to optimise well, so javascript optimisation overhead can swamp the test.
Kraken is more of an extended sunspider.
http://m8y.org/tmp/kraken.xhtml