Chrome’s Amazing Speed: See For Yourself!

How fast is Chrome?

When Google introduced Chrome, they talked about its speed.

Some people tried it after release and disagreed saying some existing browsers were just as fast.

Maybe they weren’t running the right application?

Here’s how you can see for yourself.

1. Start Chrome and an existing browser(I picked my fav Firefox) and then point them to:
http://www.oisyn.nl/wolfjs/wolfjs.html

(Note: be fair by shutting down all copies of your “existing browser” and then restarting fresh when you do this test.)

2. If you don’t see an image showing blue brick walls and a green looking door, find and uncheck the checkbox called: “Use <canvas> feature (does not work on IE):”

3. Use your arrow keys in  and look at the frame rate (frames per second or fps) showing under the window showing the blue brick walls. You will see a significant different between the fps for Firefox and the fps for Chrome.

4. To emphasize the speed differences even more, change the options:

• “Window Size”  to be “1024×768″
• “Subdiv:” to be “1″

Here are my FPS results at these settings:

• Chrome = average ~32fps
• Firefox = average ~6fps

Your results may show different numbers than mine, but I’m guessing there will still be a big difference.

I think this demo of Chrome’s speed speaks for itself.

And if you have any doubts about the usefulness of tabs as different processes, here’s another test for you.

While running the “wolfjs” application as above, open a new tab in each of your browsers and start browsing around.

Chrome was fast and responsive for me. Unfortunately, Firefox was sluggish at best, even becoming completely unresponsive at times.

Again, I think the results of this demo speaks for itself. Chrome is FAST.

Note: Special thanks to oisyn.nl for posting his “Wolfenstein-like” rendering test.

Google Chrome – Why should you care?

Have you ever had your browser freeze up while you were working online? Maybe you were just surfing, or maybe like me and many others,  you experienced that sudden jolt of fear as your browser locked just after you entered your credit card number…

Most of the time when that happens to me, it’s not even the site or tab I’m on in my browser that’s causing problems, it’s another site in another tab that I stopped looking at 10 mins prior.

The promise of each browser window or tab being it’s own process is a technical way of saying that they’ve fixed it so when one site or “tab” in your browser goes bad, it doesn’t take you down with it.

Cool or cool? Trust me, if it works, it will be cool.

And this is just the start of the goodness.