Chrome on Ubuntu: Install it now, show interest in promoting companies to write Linux software!

[marc]

Derek Broughton said:

> Rashkae wrote:
> 
>> Since early reports (admittedly, by google so this should be taken as
>> the same consideration of Reiser FS benchmarks from namesys) showed
>> that Chrome was indeed, over 1000% faster on some Javascript operations
>> than Firefox, it is indeed an oder of magnitude faster.
> 
> Sometimes - but is it really even conceivable that it comes out that
> fast on average?  It seems to me that if even Google hype says 1000%
> faster on _some_ operations, then it can't be an order of magnitude _on
> average_.

It depends. When the browser is unresponsive while it renders three 
pages, then that average takes a kicking. (It clearly matters what we 
mean by "average" here, of course.)

For users who only use a single tab, then there's probably not a lot in 
it.

-- 
Best,
Marc

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