Chrome shine for Google

Mukul Kumar
Posted: Thursday, Sep 11, 2008 at 2221 hrs IST
Updated: Thursday, Sep 11, 2008 at 2221 hrs IST

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: independent processes—so unlike FireFox, when one tab crashes or hangs, other tabs work just fine. So, if you are filling your billing details for an Internet purchase on one tab, and browsing some JavaScript-heavy webpage on some other tab, if the latter crashes—you don’t lose all the data you entered in the billing-tab. Phew! What a big relief. Chrome’s address bar (omnibox) also comes with some cool treats—type ‘25.4 cm in inches’ into the omnibox, and you will immediately see the results. Type ‘100 f in c’—converts 100 Fahrenheit to centigrade. Type ‘11.5*36+22*35’, and you will see the results. All this without pressing enter key. Very cool!

Several browser speed tests were run on Chrome in the past week. In the most popular test ‘SunSpider’—Chrome was faster than every other browser. Google’s own V8 tests—Richards, DeltaBlue, Crypto, RayTrace and EarleyBoyer reveal that Chrome beats Firefox, IE and Safari by a good margin.

Mozilla countered Chrome’s benchmark numbers on SunSpider. Firefox 3.1, which Mozilla hopes to release by the end of the year, comes with JavaScript acceleration technology called TraceMonkey. In Mozilla’s test that pitted TraceMonkey-enhanced Firefox against the Chrome beta, Google’s browser was 28% slower on Windows XP and 16% slower on Windows Vista.

John Resig, a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library, describes JavaScript performance benchmarks in much more detail with specifics on Chrome on the following webpage—http://ejohn.org/blog/ javascript-performance-rundown/.

With Web applications becoming popular and JavaScript becoming common on every webpage, Chrome comes as a breath of fresh air. It is fast, sleek and addicting. With a few changes such as making it available for Mac OS X and Linux users, an easy method for organising bookmarks, a way to quickly email links, support of addons, and a few bug fixes—it’s marketshare is going to zoom up.

—The author is vice-president, engineering, Komli Media

Will India click on?

India has a few unique characteristics not seen in the western countries, or even some of the South Asian nations. These differences are—broadband penetration has been pretty low in India, there are still good number of people who access Internet over dial-up; two third of the people accessing Internet access it through cybercafés. The latter is also related to the low penetration of PCs into people’s homes and relatively very high percentage of people owning mobile phones. And, India being a secular nation the population is spread over several regional...

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