Google Chrome 5.0.307.11 beta

posted by Jordan Peterson on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:30

The Good: Lightweight, simple interface, loads quick, awesome tab openner!

The Bad: CKeditor doesn't work well with Chrome. Hitting Control-B within the editor doesn't operate javascript bolding within the editor. Somehow the button combination pressed went back into browser history, therefore losing everything I had typed. I'm done testing Chrome!!!

Also TAB priorities and settings still don't exist. Opening a URL in a new tab just opens a new tab without switching to it. A person can easily middle click their mouse expecting a new tab to come up, but it never does. Multiple middle clicks would just consume more memory without switching to the tab like a stock Firefox browser does.

The scrollbar is nearly invisible! Even if we use wheel mouses now, it's still nice to know what section of the page I'm visually looking at.

Testing: I'm done testing Chrome. It's interesting, but definitely not ready to use and test at the loss of my own production. We'll see how it develops in the future.

 

 

 

 

Undecided: Multiple chrome processes run with the launching of one chrome browser window.

jordan@jordan-desktop:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ps -A|grep chrome
8399 ?        00:00:13 chrome
8402 ?        00:00:00 chrome
8404 ?        00:00:00 chrome
8424 ?        00:00:04 chrome
8438 ?        00:01:18 chrome
8471 ?        00:00:11 chrome

top - 08:42:17 up 1 day, 10 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.21, 0.58, 0.49
Tasks: 200 total,   7 running, 193 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 11.1%us,  2.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1925984k total,  1283776k used,   642208k free,   140296k buffers
Swap:  5622708k total,   100068k used,  5522640k free,   276628k cached
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
8438 jordan    20   0  787m 123m  22m S   23  6.6   3:14.25 chrome            
2174 jordan    20   0  330m 4884 3236 R    2  0.3  33:42.68 pulseaudio        
2278 jordan    20   0  461m  22m 7988 R    1  1.2   9:06.64 gnome-panel       
1970 root      20   0  279m  90m 9972 R    1  4.8  26:29.43 Xorg              
2287 jordan    20   0  290m  15m 4120 S    0  0.8   0:57.94 emerald           
8033 jordan    20   0  293m  16m  11m S    0  0.9   0:03.35 gnome-terminal    
8545 jordan    20   0 19132 1392  980 R    0  0.1   0:00.27 top               
    1 root      20   0 19456 1648 1148 S    0  0.1   0:00.94 init               

The above top data was pulled while chrome was running pandora.com