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Google released its entry into the browser wars Today. I’ve been playing with it all day. I like how it puts the tabs in line with the minimize / maximize / close buttons. I’ve wanted this in a browser for years. They have a long way to go to enable other features, but it’s blazing fast and minimalist, which are two big pluses in my book.
Chrome has a new Javascript engine so it’s fast. Goofy fast. Melt your face fast. It’s running on Webkit so it’s pretty. Kate Bosworth pretty. Kate Bosworth in 21 pretty. I tried to get it to run on Linux using WINE and, while I got it to load, it didn’t work well enough to render any pages without crashing. It puts Firefox to shame in the coolness category, and while it has a ways to catch up when it comes to community and available plugins, it’s still faster and sexier and what I’ll be using until Microsoft puts IE8 on the ground.
Some auctioneers, as well as my sister, have claimed that Chrome runs slower than Firefox and IE. Some speed tests have claimed that Firefox may be just as fast, though I haven’t see this behavior. If you’ve seen Chrome running slowly, let us know in the comments.
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Chrome is running PDFs very slowly.
Chrome is running PDFs very slowly.
Hi, Rob. Are you using Adobe Reader or Foxit PDF Reader?
Hi, Rob. Are you using Adobe Reader or Foxit PDF Reader?
I just installed Chrome today, September 12th, 2008. I have an ADSL Interlaced connection that averages 2582 kbps with an average PING of 40ms. This is very consistent and on a stable connection.
Google Chrome loads web pages very, very slow.
-I would estimate 20% of pages never load at all, before they time out, or I receive a Google page claiming "This webpage is not available" or that "It appears to be a broken link." Of course, they aren't broken links and a refresh normally loads them successfully.
-I would estimate that 60% of pages load very, very slowly, taking 5 to 10 times longer to load than Firefox or IE. Load speeds are typical of a 56k dial up modem. The page will be blank for 30+ seconds, then parts of it will pop up, and over the next 30 seconds, some images and text appear. Then the page either takes another 30 seconds to complete the loading (approaching 2 minutes load time) or it stops loading with only a partially loaded page.
-The remaining 20% of the time, web pages pop up almost instantly. Faster than any pages have ever loaded on Firefox or IE.
-Also noted, the spell check feature does not work properly. Often for mis-spelled words, there is not a correction suggested upon right click--even when words are one simple letter off.
Honestly, i don't know what's wrong with Chrome and I don't see any reason I should spend hours in over-my-head tech stuff, trying to fix what they did wrong to begin with. if my settings are off, it's because they didn't program Chrome to set them upon installation. But my settings have always worked great with Firefox, IE and Opera.
So I thin they messed something up, Chrome is very, very slow and not fast like you all claim.
I just installed Chrome today, September 12th, 2008. I have an ADSL Interlaced connection that averages 2582 kbps with an average PING of 40ms. This is very consistent and on a stable connection.
Google Chrome loads web pages very, very slow.
-I would estimate 20% of pages never load at all, before they time out, or I receive a Google page claiming "This webpage is not available" or that "It appears to be a broken link." Of course, they aren't broken links and a refresh normally loads them successfully.
-I would estimate that 60% of pages load very, very slowly, taking 5 to 10 times longer to load than Firefox or IE. Load speeds are typical of a 56k dial up modem. The page will be blank for 30+ seconds, then parts of it will pop up, and over the next 30 seconds, some images and text appear. Then the page either takes another 30 seconds to complete the loading (approaching 2 minutes load time) or it stops loading with only a partially loaded page.
-The remaining 20% of the time, web pages pop up almost instantly. Faster than any pages have ever loaded on Firefox or IE.
-Also noted, the spell check feature does not work properly. Often for mis-spelled words, there is not a correction suggested upon right click--even when words are one simple letter off.
Honestly, i don't know what's wrong with Chrome and I don't see any reason I should spend hours in over-my-head tech stuff, trying to fix what they did wrong to begin with. if my settings are off, it's because they didn't program Chrome to set them upon installation. But my settings have always worked great with Firefox, IE and Opera.
So I thin they messed something up, Chrome is very, very slow and not fast like you all claim.
@warren - Hi, Warren, thanks for posting your experience. I'm getting a lot of traffic from search engines with queries like "Chrome is slow" and "Chrome java slow" so it seems you're not the only one having problems with it.
I've noticed it being a memory hog, with each tab using 20-30 MB or more, it's easy to use up all available physical memory in a hurry. Hopefully future releases will do a better job with speed and memory management.
@warren - Hi, Warren, thanks for posting your experience. I'm getting a lot of traffic from search engines with queries like "Chrome is slow" and "Chrome java slow" so it seems you're not the only one having problems with it.
I've noticed it being a memory hog, with each tab using 20-30 MB or more, it's easy to use up all available physical memory in a hurry. Hopefully future releases will do a better job with speed and memory management.
I too am finding Chrome very slow to load pages. The bottom bar says resolving proxy... Some pages don't load at all. what's up?
I too am finding Chrome very slow to load pages. The bottom bar says resolving proxy... Some pages don't load at all. what's up?
@David -
I've noticed the hang when it says resolving proxy. Google Chrome does something called DNS pre-fetching where it will actually translate the domain name of places it thinks you might go into IP addresses so it has those addresses ready should you decide to go there. It's supposed to save a quarter of a second each time you tell the browser to go to a different page, but I've wondered if this practice could have something to do with the hang-up when it says resolving proxy.
@David -
I've noticed the hang when it says resolving proxy. Google Chrome does something called DNS pre-fetching where it will actually translate the domain name of places it thinks you might go into IP addresses so it has those addresses ready should you decide to go there. It's supposed to save a quarter of a second each time you tell the browser to go to a different page, but I've wondered if this practice could have something to do with the hang-up when it says resolving proxy.