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Chrome is Fast and Google likes to Show Off

Author:  DemonWasp [ Thu May 06, 2010 12:20 pm ]
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They went a little bit "MythBusters" on this one.

Author:  Insectoid [ Thu May 06, 2010 4:58 pm ]
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That was...creative. And entertaining.

Author:  DemonWasp [ Thu May 06, 2010 7:03 pm ]
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It was also probably complete lies and trickery. Assuming that page was served by a webserver somewhere, the latency was (minimum) 40ms round-trip. Figure a minimum of 2 cycles of round-trip (1 for the initial page, 1 for CSS/JS/images) and almost certainly more, and the page would take about 100ms to render, far more than the potato gun should have, for example. That's best-case.

These webpages were almost certainly served from local cache, in my opinion, which is going to be fast no matter your browser.

Author:  rdrake [ Thu May 06, 2010 7:22 pm ]
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I think the entire point is that their rendering engine is fast. I don't recall hearing them claim that they were serving these pages off some remote server.

Author:  Insectoid [ Thu May 06, 2010 7:28 pm ]
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Ads always exaggerate (or close enough) and this one was amusing enough for me to not mind.

Author:  DtY [ Thu May 06, 2010 7:41 pm ]
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rdrake @ Thu May 06, 2010 7:22 pm wrote:
I think the entire point is that their rendering engine is fast. I don't recall hearing them claim that they were serving these pages off some remote server.
This is definitely what they're going for, which is silly, because it's an open source rendering engine that's also used by Konqueror and Safari (to name the most popular).

But anyway, I'll still be using IE since in an independent study financed by Micro$oft, IE was found to have the fastest rendering engine.

Author:  SNIPERDUDE [ Thu May 06, 2010 9:09 pm ]
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DtY @ May 6th 2010, 7:41 pm wrote:
independent study financed by Micro$oft

Conflicting, no?

Author:  DtY [ Thu May 06, 2010 9:45 pm ]
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SNIPERDUDE @ Thu May 06, 2010 9:09 pm wrote:
DtY @ May 6th 2010, 7:41 pm wrote:
independent study financed by Micro$oft

Conflicting, no?
very much

Author:  rdrake [ Thu May 06, 2010 11:32 pm ]
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DtY @ Thu May 06, 2010 7:41 pm wrote:
Micro$oft
Rolling Eyes

Author:  USEC_OFFICER [ Fri May 07, 2010 11:46 am ]
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Should we even be surprised?

Author:  SNIPERDUDE [ Fri May 07, 2010 3:51 pm ]
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Independent studies financed by SNIPERDUDE seem to show favour in his kick-assery.

Author:  BigBear [ Fri May 07, 2010 3:53 pm ]
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It is all for publicity, even though this BETA version does bring some new features, that video didn't showcase them. I downloaded it because of this post so I guess it worked.

Author:  USEC_OFFICER [ Fri May 07, 2010 8:12 pm ]
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Independent stuides financed by USEC_OFFICER indicate a possible running gag.

Author:  SNIPERDUDE [ Fri May 07, 2010 10:32 pm ]
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What are the new features in Chrome anyways?

Author:  USEC_OFFICER [ Sat May 08, 2010 2:55 pm ]
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It runs fast. Very fast. (That's all I know.)

Author:  BigBear [ Sat May 08, 2010 5:34 pm ]
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Scroll down to the second post

Also I been using Chrome and i find it kinda slow then I remembered that there is a restriction with number of connections to a server and this is why download managers work by using more than that number of connections.

I increased the number of pipelines as they are called in Firefox.

Is there an equivalent setting in Chrome and how do I get to it?

Author:  T.O [ Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:23 pm ]
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theres nothing wrong with that

Author:  Insectoid [ Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:20 am ]
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There is, however, something wrong with posting in a topic nearly half a year old. Check the timestamps, bro.


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