Software tends to be susceptible to "feature creep." I'm not one to
run with 20 tabs open. I came over from Firefox where I must have 16
active AddOns. I run Chromium with 3, and BookMark Sentry that I have
disabled until I need to run a manual scan. I'd rather run more
processes and fewer AddOns. For start up speed, the way I tweaked it
is to start with a blank page, then have Speed Dial open when I open a
new tab. This causes Chromium to load quickly even when the HD is
busy. The only negative side effect is I run a small hotkey program I
wrote to remove "about:blank" from the address line. Would be nice if
Chromium could open to a blank page and them remove the about blank
text.
But anyway, I think it's still a performance browser. But I also
think it's a good idea to resist "cool new features" unless they are
something everyone is likely to use a high percentage of the time. Not
just something that has cachet because it's New.
On Oct 2, 1:10 pm, Giovani Ceotto <ghceo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Chromium Development Team and the people in this group that read
> and send emails daily giving feedback and helping the projects become
> one the best browsers have been doing an amazing job, no doubts.
> However, since the first release of this browser, the team had three
> extremely important values in mind: Security, Simplicity and specially
> Speed. This values really made the Chromium project be the best
> browser out there, the fastest, the safest and the easiest to use.
> Unfortunately, it seems, things are starting to change.
> Google Chrome is not the fastest browser out there anymore. Actually,
> I have noticed it is taking too long compared to other browser to
> start up and according to this articlehttp://lifehacker.com/browser-speed-tests/
> by a trusted source(LifeHacker) Chrome is even behind IE9 in 4th place
> between the most used browsers.
> Google Chrome has also lost its supper security status also, after
> been hacked a couple of months ago as seen in these trusted websiteshttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/google-chrome-hacked-with-sophisti...
> ,http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385205,00.asp#fbid=k0wVcttCFpS
> ,http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/googles-chrome-browser-has-fin...
> and after indicating safe pages as presenting malicious codes.
> And finally, simplicity is past, Chromium's new tab page is really
> giving up on one of the chromium's value and giving place to a
> complicated UI for most people(although I love it) specially the new
> bookmarks section of the page.
> Chromium and Chrome have been my favorite browser since a long time.
> As Gates would say it: "Let's keep it that way."
> Maybe its time to get back to our values to give our users the best
> browser possible. Anyone agrees?
