Review of Chrome by a former IE designer

scottberkun.com

24 points·__··6 comments

For subjective measures I spent a good half hour on Jay Is Games, as flash games tend to push browser & system perf to its limits, but didn’t notice significant differences.

Huh? Flash uses it's own VM, Tamarin, so it's not dependent on the browser. Browser, of course, does play a role in performance of plugins (rate of input etc) but not much. Testing Flash games to see how fast browser and it's JS is a pointless waste of time.

Eh his last comments are slightly nitpicky, but otherwise... I think we've established that chrome is FAST.

I happen to disagree. It gives the iluusion of being faster because it scrolls faster than other browsers. This is because it scrolls more. More than other browsers. More than other applications or what is considered the platform default.

This is particularly annoying when you want to scroll with any kind of precision. Including other scrolling glitches, this becomes annoying pretty fast and I would In fact say its scrolling is by definition broken.

As for speed. Tried zooming on any particular with a reasonable amount of content? The entire browser freezes and is on hiatus for several seconds.

The speed is way overrated.

Try some webapps in it. Scrolling isn't really going to test the js and dom performance.

While that may be, scrolling is usually something which matters much more to a web-page than JS and DOM performance.

But, importantly, not to a web-app.

Chrome (WebKit) appears to render pages quickly too, which is important for normal browsing. Would be nice to see some tests of this, like the iPhone vs Blackberry ones.

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