Since it was first released, I've basically used Chrome for all my "normal" browsing (aka anything not work related). It has continually gotten better and the speed with which it loads the sites I use is fantastic. I still use Firefox for video at the moment as some of the add-ons and video players are easier to configure, but for standard, speedy browsing (especially Google sites), chrome is sweet.
I have fully switched over to Chrome, and as of Wordpress 2.7 and Chrome 1.0, the little niggling things that were causing me to have to use firefox have gone away. I'm fully Chromed out now.
I gave it a shot when it first came out and immediately junked it - scroll speed was OFF-THE-CHARTS fast with my laptop's scroll.
I gave it another shot when it came out of beta and immediately junked it - scroll speed remained off-the-charts fast, and I'm now noticing 50% processor usage on a newly-opened session with 4 tabs. No thanks.
I'm now noticing 50% processor usage on a newly-opened session with 4 tabs. No thanks.
I frequently have to kill a chrome.exe process that hogs too much processor, and after I do it says in my Campfire chat window and Gmail that Shockwave has crashed. Doesn't kill any of my Chrome windows though.
These shouldn't have been anything even that taxing - I'm talking iGoogle, gmail, a forum or two, and maybe woot.
Way too high for the number and content I was seeing, at least. Even Firefox takes a week or two with 20 tabs to start spiking into the constant 40 and 50% usage.
I'm running XP, and all I keep open is Gmail, Reader, Calendar, and Campfire. Sometimes I go to processes and see a chrome.exe doing 20-40% of my system. *shrug* Sure hurts the folding until I catch it.
//edit: I just found one doing 40% on this system and showed Brian. Same deal: killing it didn't close any of my 4 windows, but it now says Shockwave crashed.
Thrax
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I gave it another shot when it came out of beta and immediately junked it - scroll speed remained off-the-charts fast, and I'm now noticing 50% processor usage on a newly-opened session with 4 tabs. No thanks.
Way too high for the number and content I was seeing, at least. Even Firefox takes a week or two with 20 tabs to start spiking into the constant 40 and 50% usage.
Chrome runs fantastically well on my older system.
:o
Srs though, Firefox with 20 tabs runs on 12% processor; one thread of Chrome's was at 40% with no sign of going down.
Still, I'd give it another chance if they'd change/give me a way to control the scroll speed. It's sadly unusable at the current speed.
//edit: I just found one doing 40% on this system and showed Brian. Same deal: killing it didn't close any of my 4 windows, but it now says Shockwave crashed.