Download Google Chrome 4.0 Beta - 400% More Performance over v1.0

[bogas04]

Er, all the benchmarks I've seen were JS and V8...

Only the above benchmark is showed!

[sammy2]

I know it's pathetic...

OOOh our browser starts in 10 seconds compared to your pedestrian 12. So what.

OOOh our browser renders pages in 200ms compared to your rather lathargic 250ms - again so what.

Speed is nice but today all the browsers are faster than webpages can download so rendering speed is irrelevant... features is where it's at.

Which ever browser has the features I want/need - Firefox at the moment - is the browser I will use even if over the course of a evenings surfing I may have taken 5 minutes longer.

When Google Chrome, nice as it is to look at, gets extensions or built in functionality of the possible extensions, then I may take a look. However I am lazy and as long as Firefox doesn't start crashing or corrupting my stuff, then I am loathe to change. I only changed from IE to Firefox because of the functionality.

If it was all about features everyone would be using maxthon.

[bogas04]

If it was all about features everyone would be using maxthon.

i would never!

[Kirkburn]

I know it's pathetic...

OOOh our browser starts in 10 seconds compared to your pedestrian 12. So what.

OOOh our browser renders pages in 200ms compared to your rather lathargic 250ms - again so what.

Quite a bit really: small changes in speed can have a big effect on how a browser feels, especially for frequent actions. Knocking off 50ms from 250ms would feel like a huge improvement, at least if you click around a lot.

Speed is nice but today all the browsers are faster than webpages can download so rendering speed is irrelevant... features is where it's at.

This is not true, at least for those on reasonable broadband connections. Plus, try scrolling a complex page on various browsers: that's certainly rendering speed limited.

Plus, well, browsers also have an effect on download speed.