chrome's download interface imo far surpasses firefox and safari. i always lose track of the separate window and have to use expose to find it. small feature in the big picture but it's a bunch of little things like that making the difference in the browser wars.
Yep, I hate the separate download window for Safari (and the default one for FireFox.)
For FireFox, I always get the Download StatusBar addon which functions a lot like the default thing in Chrome. I wish I knew of a way to do it in Safari...
As it turns out my website now works in Safari! I've been using it for a couple days now and am very happy. The turning point was when I figured out how to have _blank links open in new tabs instead of new windows. Why this requires a terminal command I don't know, but here is a link if anybody has the same issue:
I love that they use a Tesla coil. I love Tesla coils. I built a couple in highschool!
Curmudgeon mode on:
A part of me finds that ad for Chrome irritating. All it really shows is that it renders the page faster to video memory than an LCD screen refreshes. So the speed of the browser is irrelevant, since the ad demonstrates that you are waiting on the refresh rate of an LCD screen, not the browser
The thing is a moot point. A single non-cached DNS lookup is going to take longer than the rendering displayed here. If you were to benchmark an end-to-end page request, address lookup, connect, download, render and display transaction, rendering in any browser is going to be a tiny fraction of the overall time spent from the time you click on a link till the time the page is loaded and the browser is quiesced.
I'd rather browser developers focused on creating stable, standards compliant products rather then trumpeting a useless metric like page rendering. Every browser renders a page with sufficient speed to satisfy just about every user (/grumpy old man hat).
Show me a browser that won't crap a load of bricks when Flash decides to take over 90% of your CPU (my most recent gripe with Chrome for OS X).
Otherwise, Chrome is nice. It almost replaces Firefox for me - just can't live without Firebug.
I'd rather browser developers focused on creating stable, standards compliant products rather then trumpeting a useless metric like page rendering. Every browser renders a page with sufficient speed to satisfy just about every user (/grumpy old man hat).
Translation: It’s the content, not the technology.
Everyone has a browser. The world doesn’t need better browsers, it needs better websites, full of better content.
Anyone else find it ironic too that Chrome’s impressive performance has to be demonstrated in a plug-in, since Google’s own flagship video site hasn’t gone to a pure HTML solution yet?
All that rendering performance...and we show it to you by handing off control of the browser to a third party plugin, on our own site.
There isn't a pure HTML solution for video ready for production. Though, the HTML5 beta player on YouTube is nice. It's not as responsive as the Flash version, but it's less likely to trigger a crash (in my own experience).
Apparently I've got the wrong version of OS or whatever to be able to run this browser. FFFUUUUUUUCCCCCC...
It's almost time to either upgrade, or buy a new Mac.
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[quoteI haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Does anybody know if it's less of a bloated beast like firefox can be? I downloaded istat menus a few days ago and am stunned at how almost every slow down in my system appears to be related to firefox in some way.
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That's why I switched from Firefox on my PC several months ago.
Haven't looked back.
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Well the only way to upgrade is to buy the new one, right? I just didn't think there was enough new stuff on it to make it worth my while to buy it. I'm just now starting to get these little hiccups where I can't use a certain app or whatever.
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