Benchmarks: Google Chrome
Published: 04 Sep 2008
Google Chrome is undoubtedly a breath of fresh air in the browser market, bringing new competition for the previous performance leaders. Indeed, in key areas it sets new performance standards.
It's clear that Google has built its browser specifically to handle the new breed of computationally intensive web applications. In this respect, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 lags well behind not only Google Chrome, but the rest of the browser competition too.
Whether users are ready to adopt Google's browser in significant numbers is another question altogether. Here, the company's image of omnipotence on the web may work against it. Many users fear that, with the help of its fast browser, Google will simply make even more money from its search-driven advertising model.
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