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Well, there's more to Chrome than its pure rendering and JS speed you know? Predictive prefetching makes sure Chrome already has the page data before you finis

by rryan 14y ago

Well, there's more to Chrome than its pure rendering and JS speed you know? Predictive prefetching makes sure Chrome already has the page data before you finish typing. It can still beat Safari with tricks like this. Chrome Sync syncs your profile (credentials, tabs, bookmarks, omnibox typing model, etc.) across all your devices. The user interface for managing tabs is also very slick. Auto-update is gimped by the app store approval process, but at least you know that the Chrome team takes security very seriously and will take the minimum possible time to patch security flaws. Those are some things that I would want over Mobile Safari.

togasystems 14y ago
Does the iOS version have predictive prefetching?
- jorts 14y ago
  Yes.
jorts 14y ago
I totally agree. Everything in iOS Chrome works amazingly well and all of its features feel very natural to me. I primarily use Chrome across my other machines so it's nice to have all of the same information on my phone now.
bonch 14y ago
I thought Mobile Safari already had prefetching, and iCloud provides syncing. Along with the faster engine, I don't have a compelling reason to use Chrome on iOS.
Samuel_Michon 14y ago
"Predictive prefetching makes sure Chrome already has the page data before you finish typing." As a website owner, I really hate that 'feature', it really screws up the exit rate in my site stats (I don't run ads on my sites.)
- joshuahedlund 14y ago
  I always assumed prefetching just grabbed html output... does it run javascript too?
  - bzbarsky 14y ago
    Prefetching just grabs HTML. Chrome also does prerendering in some cases, which runs JS, fetches stylesheets, etc. The user may or may not ever see the result, of course.
- simonbrown 14y ago
  You could use the page visibility API to wait until the page is visible before loading the analytics code. https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibility https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibil... This is only for prerendering. I think joshuahedlund is right about prefetching.
redthrowaway 14y ago
>Chrome Sync syncs your profile (credentials, tabs, bookmarks, omnibox typing model, etc.) across all your devices. This really is a killer feature, but it needs some tweaking. I do not want iChrome to autofill the same urls it does on my laptop. Let the mobile version default to mobile sites, and the desktop version default to full sites.
- jeffjose 14y ago
  But arent sites smart enough to redirect to the mobile version even if the requested url is the same?
geofft 14y ago
> Auto-update is gimped by the app store approval process, but at least you know that the Chrome team takes security very seriously and will take the minimum possible time to patch security flaws. But most security flaws are in the renderer, which comes from the OS. The Chrome team has no ability to do security updates for that copy of WebKit. Frankly, I'm surprised they were willing to brand this wrapper as "Chrome", given that (and the more general issue that it's not the Chrome WebKit and is slower / less featureful / etc.).

by rryan 14y ago

togasystems 14y ago

Does the iOS version have predictive prefetching?

jorts 14y ago
Yes.

jorts 14y ago

I totally agree. Everything in iOS Chrome works amazingly well and all of its features feel very natural to me. I primarily use Chrome across my other machines so it's nice to have all of the same information on my phone now.

bonch 14y ago

I thought Mobile Safari already had prefetching, and iCloud provides syncing. Along with the faster engine, I don't have a compelling reason to use Chrome on iOS.

Samuel_Michon 14y ago

"Predictive prefetching makes sure Chrome already has the page data before you finish typing." As a website owner, I really hate that 'feature', it really screws up the exit rate in my site stats (I don't run ads on my sites.)

joshuahedlund 14y ago
I always assumed prefetching just grabbed html output... does it run javascript too?
- bzbarsky 14y ago
  Prefetching just grabs HTML. Chrome also does prerendering in some cases, which runs JS, fetches stylesheets, etc. The user may or may not ever see the result, of course.
simonbrown 14y ago
You could use the page visibility API to wait until the page is visible before loading the analytics code. https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibility https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/pagevisibil... This is only for prerendering. I think joshuahedlund is right about prefetching.

redthrowaway 14y ago

>Chrome Sync syncs your profile (credentials, tabs, bookmarks, omnibox typing model, etc.) across all your devices. This really is a killer feature, but it needs some tweaking. I do not want iChrome to autofill the same urls it does on my laptop. Let the mobile version default to mobile sites, and the desktop version default to full sites.

jeffjose 14y ago
But arent sites smart enough to redirect to the mobile version even if the requested url is the same?

geofft 14y ago

> Auto-update is gimped by the app store approval process, but at least you know that the Chrome team takes security very seriously and will take the minimum possible time to patch security flaws. But most security flaws are in the renderer, which comes from the OS. The Chrome team has no ability to do security updates for that copy of WebKit. Frankly, I'm surprised they were willing to brand this wrapper as "Chrome", given that (and the more general issue that it's not the Chrome WebKit and is slower / less featureful / etc.).