Bear, Diah and Pasha

Test Driving Google Chrome

Posted on the September 4th, 2008 under Internet by Papa Bear

Finally I have the chance to play around with the newest open source browser on the block. Google Chrome that I installed last night has been put to some test by loading up some of my favorite sites and blogs. Since I am still not using this web browser fully in place of my trusty Firefox 3, the test was only to see in terms of speed rather than anything else.

Compared to the Firefox 3 there was a slight speed improvement when the same sites were being loaded on Chrome. On average, sites loaded slightly faster than Firefox 3 and obviously, much faster compared to my IE 7. It was fast but not enough to throw out Firefox completely.

By the way, Mozilla is not done yet as they are going to release Firefox 3.1 by end of the year that comes with JavaScript acceleration technology called TraceMonkey. Firefox enhanced with TraceMonkey has managed to beat Google Chrome Beta as reported on Firefox counters Google’s browser speed test.

In summary, Firefox 3 will remain as my main browser for now. I will have to wait for Google Chrome to be out of beta before deciding to change that. I guess when that happens, I will have to pit Chrome against the Firefox 3.1 that will be having almost the same technology as Chrome if not better. One thing for sure, IE 7 will not be needed anymore.

Here is a screen shot of this blog loaded on Chrome.

There you go! Chrome beta is a simple looking web browser and lighter on the resources but Firefox 3 is still my choice for now. It would be an interesting fight between Firefox and Chrome and may be this time IE would really feel the heat.