Chrome 4 (Stable) - Now for windows!

[Nebby]

I'm pretty sure the whole point of Chrome putting each tab as a separate process is so proper garbage collection can be done when you close the tab, but it's annoying as hell when you're trying to kill specific tabs that aren't working properly in Task Manager or whatever and all you see is a wall of chrome.exes.

Behold the beauty of the chrome task manager:

Just hit shift-esc to pop it up and then you can easily tell which process is what.

[mypasswordis]

Cool! I should try Chrome out (again) sometime.

[cetoole]

Memory leak is when a process keeps eating more and more ram as time goes on, basically it leaks memory.

Allocates memory and never releases it. Firefox has gotten pretty damn bad about this, especially for those of us who never close their browsers. Using mainly chrome now, since firefox went horribly flaky on me a week ago. Like it, except for tab overflow handling.

[mypasswordis]

I've been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now. It's okay, other than the fact that I'm getting blue screens. Which I almost never got with XP, which is what I was using before. Used Vista for a couple of weeks, then upgraded back to XP. Might do the same with Windows 7.

Anyway, the point of my post here is that Firefox seems to be a lot better about memory management in 7 than in XP, for whatever reason. Haven't yet tried Chrome.

[Grahame]

I trust you have upgraded to 3.6.4 with OOOP Firefox 3.6.4 debuts with Flash flak jacket ? The Register Chrome is now up to version 5 - you ought to try it Google Chrome Blog: A new Chrome stable release: Welcome, Mac and Linux!

[mypasswordis]

I actually just installed 3.6.4. I assume they mean crashing the browser and not the computer? Firefox itself hasn't crashed on me yet, on 7. The hang detector will definitely come in handy. I'm wondering if there is an incompatible driver installed, or if the stock memory is a bit flaky, in regards to the blue screens.

And thanks, I installed Chrome 5 but just haven't gotten around to using it. Though I have just now, and just enabled the saving the tabs feature. It does seem faster than FF.

[Cankin]

Drivers can be an issue, I assumed 7 would install all drivers for my laptop but it didn't. I almost had blue screen everyday until I installed all updated drivers for 7. No more blue screen after updating all drivers and I really think 7 is the best version of Windows.

[mypasswordis]

Still having blue screens, can't easily guess which driver may be causing problems since the crashes are seemingly completely random.

Chrome 5 sucks, it doesn't load the page properly half the time, can't load wikipedia links just because there is no http:// in front, is a huge memory hog, I'm still pissed there's a wall of chrome.exe's in Task Manager, and it's not even that fast. Viewing page source is also weird.

[jinp6301]

hmm interesting, complete opposite experience for me.

if FF works for you, stay with it

[falkon]

Anyone else pissed that they got rid of phantom tabs in this dev update? Phantom tabs are those greyed out tabs that would happen when you closed a pinned tab. Now, it just disappears.

[Grahame]

And now they are up to version 6!

What's New in Google Chrome 6?

[Grahame]

Indeed

Chrome celebrates second b-day with sixth release ? The Register

[KrypticMind]

Google: Chrome will be 60 times faster | Browsers - InfoWorld

Maybe now my graphics card won't be so lazy when I'm not gaming.

[Cankin]

IE, Safari and Firefox also support hardware acceleration. I don't really need a lightening fast but less buggy browser.

[luvdunhill]

I don't really need a lightening fast but less buggy browser.

That's exactly what I need!

[manaox2]

That's exactly what I need!

Preferably with a print preview option.

[mypasswordis]

Chrome now stands at 7.5 per cent of the market, with Firefox at 23 per cent and IE at 60.4 per cent.

The hell?

I hope the Chrome 6 sucks less than the previous version. Not really eager to switch again though, based on last time.

[Cankin]

The hell?

and more than 16% still using IE6

I hope the Chrome 6 sucks less than the previous version. Not really eager to switch again though, based on last time.

Try Firefox 4 beta, I like it

[KrypticMind]

IE, Safari and Firefox also support hardware acceleration. I don't really need a lightening fast but less buggy browser.

But... are they 60 times faster than Chrome 6?

[Cankin]

But... are they 60 times faster than Chrome 6?

I've used Chrome 2 to 6 on both of my computers and they all have this download problem

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=00218ad3d33648e4&hl=en

[mypasswordis]

Yup I experienced the download problem and even the pages properly loading problem too. It's kind of pointless boasting about speed if you can't even load the pages properly. Also I didn't like the way they "streamlined" everything. Not that I don't like streamlining, just the way they did it isn't that intuitive or good.

[KrypticMind]

Just being sarcastic about the speed thing. I've unfortunately had those problems as well, which deters me from keeping it on my PC. They really should fix some of the major bugs first.