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A few miscellanea you may have missed: * JavaScript is lightning fast. 3x faster than FireFox 3 on the Dromaeo test suite. * JavaScript compatibility isn't 10
by halo 18y ago
A few miscellanea you may have missed:
* JavaScript is lightning fast. 3x faster than FireFox 3 on the Dromaeo test suite.
* JavaScript compatibility isn't 100%. Fails in RaphaelJS, apparently Facebook and probably more. I'm unsure why.
* The download bar is interesting and different. Opens a bar at the bottom, defaults to Downloads in My Documents. Can drag elsewhere when done.
* It includes sleek a Firebug-esque tag inspector. Right click and inspect element.
* Scrolling up doesn't work on my trackpad. Middle clicking and scrolling up/down doesn't work. I hope this is fixed soon
* The drop-down search bar is neat. Press Ctrl+F to open it. It doesn't work in textareas.
* You can hide the bookmarks bar via Ctrl+B.
* You can drag tabs in and out of the window to form new windows. There's also a lovely animation when you move tabs around.
* There's a task manager for Chrome alone - right click on the main bar and click task manager. 'Stats for nerds' for more info which takes you to about:memory - also shows you memory usage for IE and Opera.
* You can add keywords in the search bar by going to Options, Manage and changing the default keyword.
* Passes Acid2 test. On Acid3, gets a respectable 78/100 on the JS tests, but has a few rendering bugs and linktest failed. Both tests are currently getting hammered - I'm not sure whether this changes the result for the latter.
* You can resize textareas using the bottom-right hand corner
* It includes a spell checker. You can't seem to add new words to it though.
* It supports other search engines other than Google out of the box. It asked me what default to use on startup. It imported my info from FireFox.
* On clicking a link it only changes the status bar to indicate you've done so - other browsers make it more obvious.
* Source is available at http://dev.chromium.org/ http://dev.chromium.org/ - seems to be largely BSD licensed. I haven't downloaded it as it's almost 500mb.
- random_name 18y ago- Does not support RSS feeds - Does not scale images when zooming (like in FF3)
- Angostura 18y agoThe Tag inspector is a Webkit feature, as are the resizeable text input boxes. Webkit has been getting 100% on Acid3 for a few months now, so I'm not sure why your Chrome install isn't.
- halo 18y agoFair enough, but Chrome does inherit them - I haven't used a Webkit browser very much before because FireFox, in my experience, has been a much superior experience on both GNOME and Windows than their Webkit alternatives.
- boucher 18y agoChrome is using version 525.13 of WebKit, which was just before version 3.1 of Safari, around March. Right now Safari is on 3.1.2, and WebKit is on version 528.2.
- eggnet 18y agoI'm assuming it's because Google isn't using webkit's JavaScript implementation. Also, who knows when google grabbed the webkit source or when the last time they synced with the main site was.
- DocSavage 18y agoThere's auto-suggest for javascript object names in the Firebug-esque console. Unfortunately you can't drill down into the object as far as I can tell.