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sri:
Is this true?

"If I'm not wrong Chrome is a bigger memory guzzler than FF!!"

http://twitter.com/nischalshetty/statuses/907157174
http://twitter.com/nischalshetty/statuses/907161826

Dirhael:
I kind of like it, though I think the blue color used in the interface is a bit distracting (though I found the correct theme DLL to reshack, so I'll play with that later). It feels very fast indeed and once I had set ad-muncher to strip advertising from pages it feels no slower than Opera :Thmbsup: The animations when you open/close tabs makes it feel very smooth, though at the same time it does look a little like many of the Adobe AIR/Flash applications that have popped up recently. The built-in task manager to handle tabs is a very nice touch (hit SHIFT+ESC to bring it up), especially if you follow the "stuff for nerds" link in the dialog that pops up. The installer allowed me to import favourites from Firefox and IE, but not Opera. The functionality to allow webpages to look/function more like standalone applications is not bad, though at all times it still feels just like a very simplified browser window. Need to play more with it to see if there's any advantages to using this function.

What I don't like is that there are hardly anything you can configure, I fear the lack of auto-scrolling (middle-click to scroll) will drive me nuts sooner rather than later and the lack of mouse gestures is perhaps even worse (though for now you could configure and use StrokeIt as a workaround). Now to play some more...  :D

jgpaiva:
I dare say it's the fastest I've seen the web.
-allen (September 02, 2008, 02:23 PM)
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Have you looked at the taskmanager? :)
I usually have 13 tabs open in Opera, and I only use 3 or 4 (the other ones are just waiting for my attention, usually), I think that having a process for tab might be a bit over the edge.
Still, I have to agree with you: great speed, both opening pages as well as opening/closing tabs.
I really hate the fact that it doesn't allow me to change the search to the regular google with 100 results, though. I stand corrected, great search manager.
I also love the fact that it takes very little screenspace, even though I don't exactly "love" the fact that they have removed the title bar of the application.
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Bah, just like ff, it doesn't like my logitech mouse's back/forth button...
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Dirhael:
Is this true?

"If I'm not wrong Chrome is a bigger memory guzzler than FF!!"

http://twitter.com/nischalshetty/statuses/907157174
http://twitter.com/nischalshetty/statuses/907161826
-sri (September 02, 2008, 02:26 PM)
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Haven't had time to compare with Firefox, but here's a comparison screen of Opera and Chrome started empty and opened the same exact 5 pages which all contain either a lot of images or javascripts.

EDIT: You need to subtract the memory used by the "about memory" tab in Chrome though.

mnemonic:
I fear the lack of auto-scrolling (middle-click to scroll) will drive me nuts sooner rather than later
-Dirhael (September 02, 2008, 02:26 PM)
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I think there's something broken here.  Using the "scrolly-thing" on the side of my laptop's trackpad allows me to scroll down, but not up...

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