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Startup time matters as close to zero as you could get for me. Chrome only gets restarted when the computer gets restarted which is only when OSX releases upda
by mbell 13y ago
Startup time matters as close to zero as you could get for me. Chrome only gets restarted when the computer gets restarted which is only when OSX releases updates which is about every 3 months. As long as the answer isn't '5 minutes', I don't care about it at all.
Same deal for the other test that seems to be sinking chrome in the overall score, the open 40 tabs thing. I don't think I've ever opened 40 tabs at once, and if I did, I can't see myself caring that they all finished in some amount of time. I'd be far more concerned that the browser was smart enough to prioritize the one I'm actually looking at.
The structure of the overall score in this is pretty broken in opinion. The final tally is a geometric mean of Wait Times, JavaScript/DOM, HTML5/CSS3, and Hardware Acceleration. Chrome won all but the wait times test and even within the wait times test still won the single page test. It lost purely due to 'cold start' and 'open 40 tabs and time all of them', which are least relevant tests to reality in the entire suite.