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Do You Need Google Chrome?

Sep-3-2008 By ColourfulWorld
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Yes, finally Google is entering the arena of browser war by introducing Chrome. All conceptual definition can be found on their comic book. This is the first revolutionary browser that utilizes multi thread process to serve the contents from the internet. 

Everyone anticpated it, but as an average user, do you really need it?

After installing from the official website, this is an upgraded version of Opera as the UI is so similar and familiar at first glimpse but then when you start to explore, you discover more and more powerful elements. To basic users, such functions are deemed useless but to website developers, programmers and even serious bloggers like me, this is indeed a wonderful all-in-one tool that could provide you all the detail technical information regarding a particular website. cc commented that my blog has been sluggish recently so this would be useful for me to analyze and debug my site.

Chrome is extremely fast, just like what they have introduced in their comic. Tried loading several different websites using IE, FireFox and Chrome and IE as expected is the slowest of all. If you want speed, this is truly a masterpiece. 

 

Another unique feature of Chrome is the “Anti-Crash” function. According to the comic, if any of the element in one of the tab crashes, you can just simply close that tab without losing the entire browser. This is definitely a very cool concept but strangely when I load my blog, IE and FireFox do not detect any problems while Chrome immediately tells me that my QuickTime Plug-In 7.1 has crashed with a cute puzzle appearing at the placeholder. 

The biggest disadvantage of Google Chrome is its memory consumption. I guess this is the tradeoff of the superior multi threaded processes. Thanks to Chrome’s memory reporting, I’m able to compare the memory usage easily. Just type in “about:memory” in the address bar and the report will be loaded. The testing procedures are as below running in Windows XP Pro SP2 environment:

 

  1. All 3 browsers load the same 5 different websites.
  2. The browsers are opened, loaded and closed for 3 times. The benchmark are made on the 4th attempt.
  3. The following URL are loaded:
    - http://uncleseng.com/
    - http://danielliew.com/
    - http://www.downloadgooglechrome.org/google-chrome-official-logo.html
    - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/#
    - https://mail.google.com/
And take a look at the memory usage…
And since the memory diagnostics occupies 13,436k therefore we have to deduct this amount from the total memory consumed by Chrome. Another memory snapshot is done using Cacheman XP and the results are:
It is obvious that FireFox consumes the least memory while Chrome eating up a whopping 166.37MB. IE being the lousiest with moderate memory consumption and slowest performance.
As for security, since it’s just being launched so tehcnically it’s safe at the moment but soon like other browsers it will be exploited and more and more vulnarabilities will be discovered. Let’s hope Google do not let us down.
Conclusion, Google Chrome is worth the try although the start up memory usage is fairly high. Nevertheless in the long run, especially when you do not restart the browser after a long period of work, Google Chrome will be the champion for FireFox always has the memory leak problem, minor or major even up to version 3. What about IE? Nah, Just throw it into the recycle bin! Right now I’ll just use both FireFox and Chrome for my daily internet activities. Never trust any single browser alone. HAHAHA!
By the way, is Google trying to victimize FireFox or IE? LOL, looks like this is another version of “Romance of 3 Kingdoms”.

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  1. pelf Said,

    WOW, thanks for experimenting with the browser, and for “digesting” the materials for people like me! :D

  2. ColourfulWorld Said,

    pelf:

    LOL, hope it helps to give you some brief idea of what Chrome is capable of. Anyway, take a spin and you’ll enjoy using tomorrow’s technology today! =)