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Another review that misses something that is interesting me. We have a mixed site: some new(-ish) machines, some old ones, some that are antiques. Chrome is only faster (in my testing)on multi-core processors - on single-core processors - it seems slower than Firefox (with all the extensions stripped out) on single core processors. This does seem to make sense .. process switches are always going to be much more expensive than thread switches with only a single core, but I would like to see this confirmed by someone with more experience in testing browsers. Does it matter? All machines will be multi-core (sometime) soon. I'm not sure, but it does occur to me that at the moment Chrome is one of the few apps to use multiple processes 'aggressively'. Suppose, in some hypothetical future, more apps are doing this and there isn't always an 'idle' core sitting around waiting to pick up your context switch? How does that change the picture?
By Ashley on Friday Oct 2