Google Chrome Beta for Linux

Google Chrome Beta for linux is now available to download!

First impression is brilliant. Package file for Ubuntu/Debian is 12mb and after download it installs in a second. Execution time is very fast! And first you can import configurations, bookmarks, history from any other browser (for me it’s Firefox). Ok. This is very good. No crashes. For example, Google Picasa crashes every minute and it’s impossible now to use it in linux. For beta version this is too much.

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Now more detailed view:

What about memory?

When you start Chrome it starts 3 main processes (~30mb, but when you open new tabs it’s also growing).

And every next tab adds an new process (from 10mb to 35mb). But after downloading and drawing every tab takes ~30mb of your memory.

For example, Firefox works with memory better. After start it takes ~30mb. But every next tab adds only ~5-10mb or even less.

So this is not so attractive for small or weak computers.

What about extensions?

There’re very much extensions for Firefox and some of them are so comfortable that you can’t change you browser.

It seems that there will be also very much extensions for Chrome. And now there’re many extensions wich can be found in extensions gallery.

Tabs?

When you add a new tab Chrome shows you last used pages and small images of them. And you can keep some of them always on this selection-page by pressing “keep”. And when you open link in new tab it stands after current tab in tab-list. In comparison with Firefox: Firefox adds this tabs in the end of tab-list.

Design

I can’t say something bad about the design. This is very pretty and smooth. And the arrangement of elements is very comfortable in use.

Summary:


So, it’s great work! Chrome beta for linux is a great thing. It’s very-very fast but uses too much memory. If you use any other google services than it will be very pretty and comfortable for you. I hope the problem with memory will be solved in next releases.

Good luck, Google Chrome Team!

Original news text:

Hello everybody out there using Linux -

Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a lean, mean browsing machine. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Linux team:

60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written

23 developer builds

2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed

12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors

Thanks for waiting and we hope that you enjoy using Google Chrome!

Google Chrome Team

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html

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