Chrome for iPhone/iPad 1010 Responses

Last post: 11 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Jul 1, 12, 3:22 a.m.

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• set

  Iphone: it's good. Has replaced safari (for now). I like unlimited tabs and swiping between tabs is nice.

  The address bar doesnt dissapear when you scroll like it does on safari which is a shame but thats somthing they'll more than like add sooner or later . Icon sticks out like a sore thumb on my dock but no big deal.

  Pretty good overall.

  iPad: GUI seems a little clunky on initial examination with the big black space at the top, might just be something I need to get used to.

  Seems ok so far but not used it enough yet...

  Thoughts?

  Jul 1, 12, 3:22 a.m. – Permalink

• clearThoughts

  im happy for the browser to become more relevant in iOS

  

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  Dog-earJul 1, 12, 3:26 a.m. – Permalink

• Christian

  Yup, seems pretty decent, love how my bookmarks are synced with the laptop/desktop. Agree about the icon.

  

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  Dog-earJul 1, 12, 5:06 a.m. – Permalink

• plash

  i love it. especially love that the ipad (and android tablet for that matter) keep up with my opened tabs on the desktop.

  

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  Dog-earJul 1, 12, 3:50 p.m. – Permalink

• Weyland

  I love the interface but I'm bummed that it's slower than Safari for now and uses the same iOS webkit library as Safari :( kick some Apple butt Google!

  http://arstechnica.com/apple/201…

  • slower than Safari?
    didnt think that was possibur– moldero

  

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  Dog-earJul 1, 12, 3:54 p.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  It feels sluggish on my iPad.

  I posted on the Google I/O thread about it. Due to the App Store rules Google couldn't integrate their V8 engine or their modified webkit. They are using webviews which use the same browser iOS provides BUT without the ability to take advantage of the Nitro JS engine, therefore JS performance on Chrome for iOS is 3 times slower than Mobile Safari, and it shows.

  • yup, I was testing it with a canvas pseudo 3D JS thing I made http://www.mkvdb.com…– Weyland

  

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  Dog-earJul 1, 12, 4:02 p.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  Nexus 7 has better specs than the iPad 2 (quadcore vs. dual core and more ram) but still craps out at rendering pages + scrolling

  • I fail to see a crap out– albums1/6

    notice the big chunks of page disappearing while scrolling on the Nexus– ernexbcn2/6

    ....and...it's TINY!!– CyBrainX3/6

    garbage– sublocked4/6

    I was shocked how poor the nexus scrolled in Chrome during the Google IO demo– animatedgif5/6

    holy shit bubble bobble theme tune– animatedgif6/6

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 12, 4:11 p.m. – Permalink

• benfal99

  my iPhone 3gs feels like iam working on a Pentium III
  so, Chrome doesn't work very well for me on it.

  • hah– ernexbcn

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 12, 4:45 p.m. – Permalink

• zarkonite

  I'm still wondering how it is that Apple can force everyone to use their web engine when that's exactly what got Microsoft into trouble with the law in the 90s...

  • hardware– prophetone1/3

    explain? They're leveraging their position in one market to gain an advantage in another, regardless of the means that's an anti-trust violation– zarkonite2/3

    ... an anti-trust violation.– zarkonite3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 12, 4:51 p.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  Google to pay a fine of $22,5 million to the Federal Trade Commission for bypassing the privacy settings of the Safari web browser to track users.

  http://www.wired.com/threatlevel…

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 12, 5:03 p.m. – Permalink

• animatedgif

  This explains the Nitro engine difference that arrived in iOS 4.3
  http://daringfireball.net/2011/0…

  

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  Dog-earJul 11, 12, 2:29 a.m. – Permalink