Comments on: Third Chrome beta another notch faster

Google has begun releasing its third beta version of Chrome. Our tests show it's 37 percent faster at JavaScript than the earlier beta from two months earlier.

[B-Ri]

Now if they would only release the Mac client...

[jaybarrow]

According to Google's website, the Mac version is in development. Of course they've been saying that... but you can sign up for info regarding the Mac client at Google.

[markur69]

why don't you add WebKit with SquirrelFish Extreme as its JavaScript interpreter. I think it might beat all these browsers. It will eventually become Safari 4.0. It's beta and is running very well on my Mac OS 10.5.5. Nightly builds are available. Please throw this one into the mix, especially if you are throwing Alpha and just released Beta's of Chrome. They use the same underprinings, as I understand it.

See http://webkit.org

regards

Mark Buckley

[Shankland]

Yes, I probably will next time around. I was shying away from the nightly builds, but was curious about Minefield so I could get around the Firefox 3.1b1 bug that blocked it from running Google's test. So next time, perhaps....

[googlerox]

Does anyone know the exact date that Google Chrome full browser will come out?

[askj113]

It is out, really. It's just typical google to say its in beta. I mean, gmail's probably never going to come out of beta

[Major Kirtar]

O-P-E-R-A

[unknown unknown]

it sucks.

[Deekman]

Would someone PLEASE test Opera so the nerds will shut up? We all know it's slower; put in on a graph for pete's sake.

[AnthonyNYC]

OK so I see that IE is so much slower but it has cool features, mainly one I use all the time, scroll and zoom! and being able to zoom into pictures on the web to see details is so important to me. Chrome was lacking this basic feature so far, so because of that I will continue to use IE7.
:)

[imacpwr]

quote: "Chrome got a notch faster, getting the test done in 2,546 milliseconds compared with 2,904 milliseconds"

Oh yea... like the naked eye can really see the difference..?!?!

[IndieArmy]

After a few minutes of browsing, those milliseconds add up. So yes, you will be able to notice a difference.

[amwayorlando]

Sunspider Test Results.
Google Chrome 0.3.154.9---
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1584.8ms +/- 5.4%
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Minefield---
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1918.2ms +/- 4.8%
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Test Environment:
Intel T7500 2.2 G CPU.
3GB RAM
Windows Vista SP1

[Shankland]

Interesting. Like I say, your mileage may vary.

[OscarWeb]

SunSpider Results using Safari 4.0 (5528.1)
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1764.4ms +/- 1.2%
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MacBook (early-2008) 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, OS X 10.5.5

[rogerpack2005]

I love chrome's speed--faster than FF3 on my machine...but recently I went to a friend's blog, ignored warnings that it had malware, and it subsequently downloaded and ran an executable [without prompting me] which installed "antispyware2009" and rebooted my computer. And now I can't seem to get rid of it. I am NOT using chrome until they have a stable version which hasn't shown any security glitches for a few months :)

Then I'll be back, google, don't you worry.

[askj113]

Wait, if I read it right doesn't that sound more like user error then a security glitch?

[DragonRich]

<ahem> "I went to a friend's blog, IGNORED WARNINGS THAT IT HAD MALWARE"

Was there something you could have done to not get that unwanted installation; other than pay attention to the warnings? Is it CHROME or did you simply just ignore the warning? I'm thinking of installing this browser to see how it works on Vista. I love FIrefox but if this is faster....then I want it!

[bigmc6000]

warning or not the app shouldn't allow anything to install without permission and saying "ignore" is not the same as saying "install". Maybe he shouldn't have hit ignore but I'm sure he's been to his friend's blog many times using FF and nothing installed so he was basically lulled into a false sense of security from FF. Google needs to fix it - no downloading without explicit consent.

[strongpimphand]

instead of complaining to CNET, you need to be complaining to your "friend" that his blog has malware....

.....or, quit pirating from untrusty blogs

[blahblahz]

It probably exploited a security flaw in an out of date plugin (Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc). The warnings are warnings for a reason.

[The User]

What's a point of Chrome again? IE and Safari are out of competition - they come pre-installed and most of the users will not bother exploring other avenues. FireFox - seems to be faster based on the tests, it has by far better UI and in the features department Chrome looks more of a "Ford Model A" comparing to a '09 Mercedes S-Class represented by FireFox. What's the point of Chrome again?

[bigmc6000]

*waves magic wand* Repeat after me - "I LOVE Google, I LOVE Google, I LOVE Google" ;)

[Sparky650]

Not really caring about Chrome at this point. I was fast but, very user unfriendly. I found no way to get back to my links page.

[Linearly]

SunSpider Results using Chromium 0.3.155.0 Build 4705
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 990.4ms +/- 2.4%
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(link to results @ http://tinyurl.com/sunspider-chromeresult )

Core 2 e6600 @ 2.8GHz
4GB DDR2
Windows XP x64 Professional SP2

Unless i did something wrong, thats a rather fast run of SunSpider compared to other results ... i ran it a few more times and it was comparable in speed to that one

[Linearly]

I was bored, so decided to run a few more tests, and i think something is wrong (10points if you can guess where they might be)

SunSpider Results using Chromium 0.3.155.0 Build 4705
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 963.2ms +/- 1.6%
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SunSpider Results using Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 22461.2ms +/- 0.5%
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SunSpider Results using Opera 9.62 Build 10467
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 3216.2ms +/- 1.0%
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SunSpider Results using FireFox 3.0.3
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 2516.4ms +/- 0.9%
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SunSpider Results using Safari 3.1.2 Build 525.21
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 3010.0ms +/- 1.1%
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