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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2008, 10:07:54 AM »
I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.


huh. That sucks. That sounds like an idiot coding mistake, and since multi-tabbed browsers have been around for quite some time, you'd think an error like that would have already been worked out.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2008, 10:09:58 AM »
i laughed at that again today, that post was awesome z3wb.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2008, 01:24:01 PM »
I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.


huh. That sucks. That sounds like an idiot coding mistake, and since multi-tabbed browsers have been around for quite some time, you'd think an error like that would have already been worked out.

It's not an error. I can't find the article (mainly because I didn't look) but Google said that it wanted each new tab to be a separate process instead of a separate thread mostly because computers today will be able to handle it. Kinda like how back a long time ago, porn could only be found in the form of .GIF images, but nowadays we can download feature-length films! The times, they are a changing.


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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2008, 01:30:05 PM »
I tried Chrome and I liked it until I looked at my processes to see how much memory it was using. Every tab I had open created another instance of Chrome, each using like 10-15 megs of ram, and I always have a lot of tabs open, so this thing ended up using like 5 times more memory than Firefox. And then I read the EULA and uninstalled the shit out of it.


huh. That sucks. That sounds like an idiot coding mistake, and since multi-tabbed browsers have been around for quite some time, you'd think an error like that would have already been worked out.

It's not an error. I can't find the article (mainly because I didn't look) but Google said that it wanted each new tab to be a separate process instead of a separate thread mostly because computers today will be able to handle it. Kinda like how back a long time ago, porn could only be found in the form of .GIF images, but nowadays we can download feature-length films! The times, they are a changing.


Not changing fast enough for me. Still waiting for holodeck porn.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2008, 05:38:12 PM »
This post made me finally go try it out.  I like it.  But I'm unlikely to switch from Firefox, even though it seems a little faster.  Why bother when I'm used to Firefox and all Chrome is likely to do is end up taking away some functionality that I like.

Anything that takes away a little more from IE makes me happy though.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2008, 01:01:05 AM »
This post made me finally go try it out.  I like it.  But I'm unlikely to switch from Firefox, even though it seems a little faster.  Why bother when I'm used to Firefox and all Chrome is likely to do is end up taking away some functionality that I like.

Anything that takes away a little more from IE makes me happy though.

I'm gonna go with this.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2008, 07:55:31 PM »
what a piece of piss google chrome turned out to be.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2008, 10:41:47 PM »
what a piece of piss google chrome turned out to be.

It sure wowed everybody for a couple of days, then was promptly forgotten.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2008, 11:39:51 AM »
what a piece of piss google chrome turned out to be.

It sure wowed everybody for a couple of days, then was promptly forgotten.

Isn't it still in beta testing? Be damned if I google'd it to read up on it.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #25 on: November 21, 2008, 12:28:27 PM »
Isn't it still in beta testing? Be damned if I google'd it to read up on it.

Everything Google ever does is in beta forever.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #27 on: November 23, 2008, 01:18:19 PM »
http://blogs.computerworld.com/chrome_firefox

We went everywhere together. Sometimes I'd have 20 or 30 tabs open at once.

wow that's a lot of PIDs. heh.

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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #28 on: November 23, 2008, 06:28:00 PM »
I've been liking Opera a lot more since teh forumz started working with it.
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Re: So what do you think of Google Chrome?
« Reply #29 on: November 23, 2008, 08:05:35 PM »
Opera is the best browser ever.
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