Maybe it's time to rethink our steps

[Giovani Ceotto]

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 article http://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 websites
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/google-chrome-hacked-with-sophisticated-exploit/8626
, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385205,00.asp#fbid=k0wVcttCFpS
, http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-pick/googles-chrome-browser-has-finally-been-hacked-2011059/
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?

[Ben]

While I don't know about the speed or safety, I tend to agree that
certain parts of Chrome have gotten a bit more complicated than they
need to be. For instance, with the history and related apis it should be
possible to implement the current (or previous) newtab page using an
override page, so a simpler default should be fine--desired, even.

[MilesAhead]

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...