Chrome 2.0 released

What a great way to install the browser: use ClickOnce to download the installer that downloads the browser. Also, the UI doesn't feel native to me: the checkboxes and radiobuttons are smaller than normal and other controls have the dotted square around them.

ZippyV said:

What a great way to install the browser: use ClickOnce to download the installer that downloads the browser. Also, the UI doesn't feel native to me: the checkboxes and radiobuttons are smaller than normal and other controls have the dotted square around them.

Doesn't understand high DPI and the zoom functionality resets itself every time you close a tab, making for a rather unpleasant browsing experience. Still lacks RSS capabilites and has the single most confusing "Favorites" implementation I've ever seen. Don't think I'll be using that much.

jamie said:

Minh said:

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i like the way they did tabs

i loaded the new one

if its faster - i wouldnt know.

cause i use ie for everything - and ..it is ...SLOW

maybe i shouldnt use it anymore.... Im just used to it...

I don't use IE for anything except when sites don't work in FireFox...

I gave IE one last spin when I heard that its speed is comparable to FireFox... and it actually was... but only when there are no plugins in used...

And it was OK with my 1 plugin installed (FoxMarks)... but it's unremarkable... and FireFox & Chrome is just snappier... Although FireFox is nowhere near perfect... I still have to kill the process once in a while when too many Flash objects are playing, and Chrome doesn't have the plugins yet...

But I rather suffer once-in-a-while reboots than constant mediocre speed...

Chrome 2.0 finally remembers my download location, but still doesn't remember my font size (zoom level?)

AndyC said:

ZippyV said:

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Doesn't understand high DPI and the zoom functionality resets itself every time you close a tab, making for a rather unpleasant browsing experience. Still lacks RSS capabilites and has the single most confusing "Favorites" implementation I've ever seen. Don't think I'll be using that much.

Well confusing and confusing. It's different and surprising but as with so many other things, it's a habbit and I have found myself adapting to it.
Newsfeeds are not really integral to browsing (although are becomming so) but there ought to be a good extensibility model so such peripheral features could be added by proxy. No idea on Chrome extensibility and plug-in support or non-support. In the extreme it is open-source so it can be modded.

If Mozilla would just drop TraceMonkey and use V8 instead, Firefox would be awesome.  Ditto Internet Explorer and JScript.  Or if you could reskin Chrome to work more like Firefox or Internet Explorer (whichever browser they're more comfortable with), people might like it a lot more.

joechung said:

If Mozilla would just drop TraceMonkey and use V8 instead, Firefox would be awesome.  Ditto Internet Explorer and JScript.  Or if you could reskin Chrome to work more like Firefox or Internet Explorer (whichever browser they're more comfortable with), people might like it a lot more.

Why? TraceMonkey is pretty damn fast as it is. Firefox 3.5 is very Chrome-ish speed wise I've noticed.

Bass said:

joechung said:

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Why? TraceMonkey is pretty damn fast as it is. Firefox 3.5 is very Chrome-ish speed wise I've noticed.

Agreed. I rather like the idea of a Javascript arms race.
Having different implementations based on different theories is pure niceness.
And of course - on a DOM arms race as well!

Bass said:

joechung said:

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Why? TraceMonkey is pretty damn fast as it is. Firefox 3.5 is very Chrome-ish speed wise I've noticed.

TraceMonkey may have been comparable to Chrome 1.0 but is noticeably slower than Chrome 3.0 and Safari 4.0. Check out this blog post by Olov Lassus - http://www.lassus.eu/2009/05/v8-and-javascriptcore-are-really-really.html - where he compares JavaScript performance in V8, TraceMonkey, and JavaScriptCore.