Most Popular
| Top Stories | Commented | Featured |
ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review featured
TechSpot's PC Buying Guide: Always up to date! featured
Weekend tech reading: Microsoft to patch 17-year-old bug
Windows 7 overtakes Vista among enthusiasts, plus other interesting trends
Steam weekend sale: Far Cry Complete for $14.99
Microsoft rumored to showcase Windows Mobile 7 next week with Zune-like interface
TS Community
| User Gallery | Recent Discussion |
 My Puter by Adhmuz |  Looking on from a corner by Mikymjr |
 BIG CATS by earthlostangel |  6600GT No Heatsink by vnf4ultra |
TechSpot RSSThe Web
Google touts even faster Chrome browser
The most recent update (2.0.181.1 Beta) is touting further speed improvements, especially for JavaScript execution where Google claims up to a 30% improvement over the last stable version of the browser. Along with that come feature enhancements and additions like form autofill, a full screen mode, and the ability to customize the new tab screen.
In the meantime, we expect Google to continue playing the performance card as one of Chrome's prime qualities, but what do you think it will take for more users to make the switch? A video showcasing the latest Chrome features after the jump.
Related Stories
User Comments (7)
Post a comment| jimmy5 on May 21, 2009 11:17 PM | Does it still have the bookmark tab on the right side? If
so, forget it, I'll wait until they come into the 2000's and
make the look customable... When it can do what IE can do
but faster then I will switch.
|
| riffmaker on May 22, 2009 5:46 AM | Originally posted by jimmy5: Does it still
have the bookmark tab on the right side? If so, forget it,
I'll wait until they come into the 2000's and make the look
customable... When it can do what IE can do but faster then
I will switch. When it can do what IE can do I'll
throw it out of the window(s) 
|
| tcashon on May 22, 2009 6:58 AM | I like the whole idea of the browser being fast, but I just
find the user interface so.......ugly. If they could spruce
it up a bit I would definitely use it. I'm with the guy
above, I'd like some appearance customization.
|
| phantasm66 on May 22, 2009 8:08 AM | Definately faster with java script .
|
| jimmy5 on May 22, 2009 9:30 AM | lol at riffmaker..true, but I have no problems. Ya, it's ugly looking... Being just fast is not the most important thing, I arranged all of my toolbars to the way I like them. It's just an ease of use thing. I tried it for a few days and I didn't really notice a speed difference worth switching for, maybe I don't do what it's fast at. Another thing is when I imported all of my favs it didn't import the little icons so I had little "blank pages" until I go and visit that page again for it to reload.
|
| -Kestrel- on May 22, 2009 11:03 AM | For me to switch, it will need to have available the same
reliable addons I use in Firefox, and offer me something
besides more speed. Reliability would be a good start: FF
crashes inexplicably fairly often, even with a vanilla
install.
|
| kcee on May 24, 2009 3:17 PM | Google need to start addressing comfort issues and start
making Chrome customizable. Stop 'improving' the core -
which is good enough now - and introduce, say, an ability to
fix zoom level (which at the moment I have to change every
time I start Chrome, and on each new tab), plug-in
functionality etc. Google need to stop navel-gazing with
Chrome & start looking outward a bit if it wants wider
acceptance.
|
