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Google Chrome 3 review

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The lack of major new features is perhaps not a surprise for a browser that prides itself on being lean and mean. It's also faster than ever, comfortably retaining its overall speed crown.

Even so, it does struggle to justify the leap from version 2 to version 3. There are pleasing touches of polish that add to its usability, making it easier to use for longer periods for example, but with extension support currently held at developer-level, it seems as though its big moment is still to come.

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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