Nebby Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 I'm pretty sure the whole point of Chrome putting each tab as a separate process is so proper garbage collection can be done when you close the tab, but it's annoying as hell when you're trying to kill specific tabs that aren't working properly in Task Manager or whatever and all you see is a wall of chrome.exes. Behold the beauty of the chrome task manager: Just hit shift-esc to pop it up and then you can easily tell which process is what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted June 3, 2010 Report Share Posted June 3, 2010 Cool! I should try Chrome out (again) sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetoole Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Memory leak is when a process keeps eating more and more ram as time goes on, basically it leaks memory. Allocates memory and never releases it. Firefox has gotten pretty damn bad about this, especially for those of us who never close their browsers. Using mainly chrome now, since firefox went horribly flaky on me a week ago. Like it, except for tab overflow handling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 I've been using Windows 7 for a few weeks now. It's okay, other than the fact that I'm getting blue screens. Which I almost never got with XP, which is what I was using before. Used Vista for a couple of weeks, then upgraded back to XP. Might do the same with Windows 7. Anyway, the point of my post here is that Firefox seems to be a lot better about memory management in 7 than in XP, for whatever reason. Haven't yet tried Chrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted June 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 I trust you have upgraded to 3.6.4 with OOOP Firefox 3.6.4 debuts with Flash flak jacket ? The Register Chrome is now up to version 5 - you ought to try it Google Chrome Blog: A new Chrome stable release: Welcome, Mac and Linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 I actually just installed 3.6.4. I assume they mean crashing the browser and not the computer? Firefox itself hasn't crashed on me yet, on 7. The hang detector will definitely come in handy. I'm wondering if there is an incompatible driver installed, or if the stock memory is a bit flaky, in regards to the blue screens. And thanks, I installed Chrome 5 but just haven't gotten around to using it. Though I have just now, and just enabled the saving the tabs feature. It does seem faster than FF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cankin Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Drivers can be an issue, I assumed 7 would install all drivers for my laptop but it didn't. I almost had blue screen everyday until I installed all updated drivers for 7. No more blue screen after updating all drivers and I really think 7 is the best version of Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 Still having blue screens, can't easily guess which driver may be causing problems since the crashes are seemingly completely random. Chrome 5 sucks, it doesn't load the page properly half the time, can't load wikipedia links just because there is no http:// in front, is a huge memory hog, I'm still pissed there's a wall of chrome.exe's in Task Manager, and it's not even that fast. Viewing page source is also weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted June 27, 2010 Report Share Posted June 27, 2010 hmm interesting, complete opposite experience for me. if FF works for you, stay with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkon Posted August 22, 2010 Report Share Posted August 22, 2010 Anyone else pissed that they got rid of phantom tabs in this dev update? Phantom tabs are those greyed out tabs that would happen when you closed a pinned tab. Now, it just disappears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 And now they are up to version 6! What's New in Google Chrome 6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted September 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2010 Indeed Chrome celebrates second b-day with sixth release ? The Register Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrypticMind Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Google: Chrome will be 60 times faster | Browsers - InfoWorld Maybe now my graphics card won't be so lazy when I'm not gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cankin Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 IE, Safari and Firefox also support hardware acceleration. I don't really need a lightening fast but less buggy browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvdunhill Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 I don't really need a lightening fast but less buggy browser. That's exactly what I need! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaox2 Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 That's exactly what I need! Preferably with a print preview option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 Chrome now stands at 7.5 per cent of the market, with Firefox at 23 per cent and IE at 60.4 per cent. The hell? I hope the Chrome 6 sucks less than the previous version. Not really eager to switch again though, based on last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cankin Posted September 18, 2010 Report Share Posted September 18, 2010 The hell? and more than 16% still using IE6 I hope the Chrome 6 sucks less than the previous version. Not really eager to switch again though, based on last time. Try Firefox 4 beta, I like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrypticMind Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 IE, Safari and Firefox also support hardware acceleration. I don't really need a lightening fast but less buggy browser. But... are they 60 times faster than Chrome 6? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cankin Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 But... are they 60 times faster than Chrome 6? I've used Chrome 2 to 6 on both of my computers and they all have this download problem http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=00218ad3d33648e4&hl=en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mypasswordis Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 Yup I experienced the download problem and even the pages properly loading problem too. It's kind of pointless boasting about speed if you can't even load the pages properly. Also I didn't like the way they "streamlined" everything. Not that I don't like streamlining, just the way they did it isn't that intuitive or good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrypticMind Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 Just being sarcastic about the speed thing. I've unfortunately had those problems as well, which deters me from keeping it on my PC. They really should fix some of the major bugs first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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