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Here in its complete form is a REVIEW of Google's CHROME browser by Mark Snyder.
I read it, went back to my desktop and started opening Firefox again and I personally feel that the article is 'right on'!
Firefox opens faster, runs faster and allows me to have more open at the same time without slowing down.
Read the review and make your own comparisons and decisions.
~~~GrayBeard~~~
Mini-Review: All That's Chrome Is Not ShinyBy Mark Snyder
You have all heard by now of the greatness of the new Google Chrome browser. According to all of the experts and every computer geek worth their badge of geekdom, the Chrome browser is the end all, be all of the browser. There can be no more wanting. In fact, the browser wars are over and Chrome is victorious.
Really? Am I missing something? Is there a version of Chrome that one can only download using a special code sent from another galaxy far, far, away? I ask because, in my constant search for the perfect browser, I downloaded and installed Chrome-in fact, I used it through several of its updates which come almost hourly it seems-and found my Chrome to be more like an old 71 Buick sitting in the junk yard: a good reputation, once full of potential and possibilities, but now rusty and worthless.
The most common praise you hear is that it is fast, and indeed it is fast; although, based on some comparisons as well as my own, not as fast in many instances as Opera. The second most common praise you hear is that it is. . . . fast. Oh, I already used that one? Well, there really is not a lot of other praise. There is, however, some criticism I can provide you.
First, it is a huge resource hog. I mean oink, oink, huge! In order to insure that when one open tab crashes the entire browser does not crash (and this is one of its big selling points) Google assigns an entire Windows process to each open tab. That's right. Each open tab will have its own process running in Task Manger; each drawing its own bite out of your memory and your CPU time. In addition, there are three processes that run all of the time your browser is open whether you are using it or not and irregardless of any tabs. Are you with me here? Open three tabs and you have six processes running. And all of these running processes do not come at no cost to your computer's resources. Each tab consumed between 18MB to 22MB of Ram and the three main Google browser processes another 112MB of Ram. So if you happen to have three tabs open you will be using 178MB of RAM memory. I ran an entire computer with Windows 95 on less memory than that just a few years ago. If this is not enough to make even your old copy of IE6 look welcome, Chrome sets off all kinds of security alerts as it needs access to your keyboard(?), SVCHost, the Windows DNS/RPC Client Services, and installs a global hook into your system using a dwmapi .dll. It also needs to constantly modify protected registry keys. In fact, between the firewall and WinPatrol it activated 30 alerts needing permission to access services, install hidden files, and so on. That is scary!
But like everyone says, it is fast! I just can't afford the "price."
Review printed here with special permission from Jack Teems, owner of "Neat Net Tricks"
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