Chromium for Linux

[quanganht]

Have anyone tried Beta version of Chromium for Linux or Mac OS X ? I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, and it's very surprise for me to find out Chrome is lightning fast, and Firefox is dead slow. Sunspider result:

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TEST                   COMPARISON            FROM(Chrome)                 TO(FF)             DETAILS

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** TOTAL **:           *4.69x as slow*   618.8ms +/- 3.2%   2901.4ms +/- 1.6%     significant

One more thing,on my system, Firefox in Ubuntu 64-bit is twice as slow as Firefox in Windows 7 32-bit. Weird

[piranha]

I've been using chrome for linux for about 2 weeks now and....wow.

After using it, firefox is slower than....<insert metaphor here>

There are a couple of things I like in firefox more than in chrome (some addons), but what I really like about chrome is that you can kill processes associated with individual pages = it never freezes

-JL

[tharkun]

I've been using it for about a week. The only problem I've had is when you highlight a piece of text, the blue highlighting seems to remain in certain places after you've deselected it. Firefox now seems slow and bulky, compared to chrome.

[Owen]

Is it just me who doesn't get how Chromium can be 4x as fast when it takes 4x as long? Reading the results backwards?

As for Chromium: Used it for a while. Has annoying bugs. Like the one where it decides to resize the window to some ridiculous height where the bottom is about 3 miles below the bottom of my screen. Then refuses to re-maximize, or resize at all.

Speedwise, I see no difference between Chromium and Opera. The only thing I can discern is that the combination of Flash + nspluginwrapper occasionally causes Opera to freeze for a bit; but thats the awfulnes of nspluginwrapper, and it affects Chrome tabs just as badly (It's just that I'm generally in a different tab to the Flash content)

[pcmattman]

I think that Chrome on Windows is the most polished version. I've been using the dev channel for a while now without significant problems on Windows 7 64-bit. Chromium on Linux certainly has a variety of fun bugs (and compatibility issues with some configurations).

Also, the benchmark (or whatever you call that) in the OP makes no sense: you really need to explain it to us.

[AndrewAPrice]

Well the speed difference would really depend on your system, along with the overhead of creating/destroying a process.

I haven't used it for Linux, but Chrome on Windows (XP then Vista now 7) is much more stable and faster than Firefox. For example it's up and ready in less than a second from clicking the Chrome icon (Firefox may take 5-10 seconds and this is on a 2Ghz duel core with around 2GB free physical memory). The other thing I notice is if I go to a page with a lot of flash elements embedded or broken Javascript that hangs the page, in Firefox it hangs the entire browser for a minute until then it pops up "Would you like to terminate the Javascript running on this page?", whereas in Chrome just the contents of that tab hangs and it takes only a few seconds for it detect it.

[quanganht]

Until now, I see no problems with Chromium on both Winshit and Linux.
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Is it just me who doesn't get how Chromium can be 4x as fast when it takes 4x as long? Reading the results backwards?

Well, my fault. I mistyped the names. Fixed

[eddyb]

You can compare Chrome and Firefox using http://thesalesgenerator.com/playground/3d2.php . Is the Canvas3D i did, not too much, but enough for showing the difference.
PS: I just found out that you can use greasemonkey scripts with Chrome as they are on the userscripts site(with beta, no extra parameters needed). So Chrome is just perfect .