Google Chrome Has A Nasty Surprise

nivek

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I recently started using Firefox again, glad I did, I hate resource hogs...
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Google Chrome Has A Nasty Surprise

With over 60% market share, Chrome is the undisputed king of web browsers. A key factor behind this is Google’s commitment to keeping it seamlessly updated with essential fixes and optimisations, but now the company has admitted Chrome’s latest upgrade comes with an unavoidable nasty surprise…


In a blog post, Google has admitted the newest version of Chrome rolling out to customers worldwide is going to consume up to 13% more of your system memory. For a browser whose biggest failing has long been its excessive memory consumption (1,2,3,4,5), this is the last thing users will want. Especially those with older systems and less RAM.

Google also confirmed this is a cross-platform change and will apply to Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. The last of these could be particularly impacted as Chrome OS systems often ship with only 4-8GB of RAM.

So why has Google done this?

It’s all in the name of security. The new, more bloated Chrome contains a feature called ‘Site Isolation’ which combats the serious Spectre vulnerability which exposes computers at a chip level.
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What’s more, if you are concerned about system performance, there’s nothing you can do to opt out. Reis says Site Isolation will be enabled for 99% of users across all platforms with just 1% held back as a test group.

What about mobile platforms? In a tweet, Google Chrome security specialist Justin Schuh says a version is being made for Android but has yet to be shipped due to “resource consumption issues.”

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nivek

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I haven't used Google Chrome in years.

Firefox is much better, IMO.

In the past I always used Firefox since Firefox began, don't know why I started using Chrome but never more lol...

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nivek

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I haven't used Google Chrome in years.

Firefox is much better, IMO.

Firefox seems much slower on my Android phone than on my Windows/Linux laptop...I wonder if Google, which controls so much of Android systems it seems, or has a major influence, is intentionally making other browsers slower so people will use Chrome instead...?

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nivek

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It doesn't matter what I do, change settings and even tried on wifi instead of the network, Firefox does not work properly on my phone...I think Google is making it this way, I have no problems with Firefox on my laptop...

It's slow, some buttons I had to hit 2 or 3 times to work, even typing this post on my phone it's delayed showing up in the text box when I type...I have Chrome disabled on my phone too...

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nivek

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spacecase0

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Awesome but no Android version for phones?...I'm going to try it on my laptop tomorrow, way too busy tonight working...

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pretty sure there are no android versions
but works great on the desk top computer.
and most of the good firefox plugins work with it.
 
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