being able to delete what I have written with impunity would be nice....

you can get hold of the pre beta beta release via torrent, but as with other browsers functionality that you would typically take for granted is broken but it is to feature a "reach around browsing" feature which will offer a minor distraction from the horrors your PI is getting exposed to behind the scenes. GREAT!

...is it still lame compared to FF? Because I use my TV for browsing, re-sizing of _everything_ is vital. No point zooming the text if the box that contains it stays the same- I end up with one word on each line in a small column down one side. I don't know how they did it, but resizing is the awesome in FF3. Get with the program big G!

Urm, chrome has had multiple channels for ages, the newest is not beta, but the dev one, which changes almost weekly.

You can change to less stable easily using http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel, going to more stable needs a reinstall though.

Paris cos she knows lots about well used channels...

@adnim

"If a human cannot measure the time difference between a page rendered in different browsers wtf does it matter, Google stfu."

This is mistaken - as well as boorishly ill-mannered. (STFU, indeed!).

Microsoft would like people to think the appearance of a static page from a cache is what counts - hence the recent false claims about the speed of IE. (It's actually painfully slow in use compared to the alternatives - which is precisely why they're trying to throw sand in the public face in the hope that people don't realize that.)

Deliberate misrepresentation from MS - hence the accompanying avatar.

What's important about Chrome and the Safari beta is the speed of the JavaScript engines. The latest Firefox 3 betas seem to be catching up, too.

Three different JavaScript benchmarks here - including SunSpider:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/browser_brouhaha_your_maximum_guide_browsers_today_and_tomorrow?page=0%2C6

What this means is that you could be twiddling your thumbs while you wait for Internet Explorer to respond when you're not loading a static page from the cache but actually USING a JavaScript-heavy web application.

I want to know when they're going to conform to standard installations and not have the app install to the users profile rather than program files!

'and one for a developer preview, which incorporates experimental features you won't find in the beta.'

so that'll be an Alpha then? OMG they are doing it just like everyone else....News?

Opera is faster than anything else around IN READ WORLD USE. it's also the best at memory management, with none of that silly Firefox memory chomping it does (even in the stable releases).

adnim...

well done you for having a nice fast computer... not everyone has one though.

also, are you suggesting that companies should continue to code bad/slow software just because you have a nice computer? what's going to happen when that 1 application you have that 'appears' to run quickly becomes 10 applications start showing their true colours? Going to go buy yourself a bigger and better computer again?

Chrome is one of the very few piece of software I've seen (in a long time) that has set out to do something new and do it efficiently too. I have a fairly powerful laptop running Vista and little else (even aero is disabled) yet the difference in performance with IE and Chrome is still astronomical.

I don't it's Google need to be STFU...

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=50&topicid=25916

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