May 6: Google Chrome. Faster than sound waves, lightning and... a potato?

[Rip_K]

ya know I coulda' almost faped to this.... which has nothing to do with any one is trying to advertise. sadly there is a problm which is the lack of controll, transfer of enery = loss of ptenial energy. but they did prove one thing...I fucking love Rue Goldberg type stuff in a way a I feel I could amlost mastmbate to it.

[redfoxnudetoons]

Uh, y'know, that's what quite a lot of programs do when you start the uninstaller.

I know that. I'm saying that the reason he gave is the reason I put down as to why I was uninstalling Chrome.

As a matter of fact, my exact words were as follows:

"Your program is too invasive, tracking everything I do, on and offline."

[Fairtravian]

Google Chrome seems very messy D:

[Gabumonz]

The potato made me laugh. XD

[CaptainSaicin]

IE: inferior speed, security on par with firefox ONLY if all extensibility is disabled and functionality reduced considerably.

Firefox: superior speed to IE, superior extensibility and utility to both chrome and IE, and best security when paired with security-related extensions noscript and adblock.

Chrome: superior speed to both IE, and to a lesser extent, firefox. Superior "out of the box" security to both IE and firefox (due to sandboxing). Little to no extensibility, inferior utility to firefox.

Personally, I use firefox... but I have chrome installed for when I want to continually run a refresh script, flash or java applet, or stream video, because it cuts down on the memory and CPU consumption of firefox, which I always have open, in the event that a script runs out of control. I also have Chrome installed on the server, so that my housemates can't get it infected.

It should be noted that this video shows only rendering time. The pages and DNS are probably pre-cached, and the browser is just rendering them quickly. There's a pipelining hack for firefox which allows you to fetch a non-cached page faster than chrome, given a fast internet connection, but chrome is faster at rendering it.

[plasmagryphon]

For the way too nerdy response:

A solid state Tesla coil can produce a spark after a few oscillations, in less than 0.1 ms. USB low speed frames for something like a mouse is only once every 1 ms (and Windows used to default to a slower every 8 ms). So the lightning could win before the computer even knew there was a mouse click. This is in the time that about a dozen horizontal lines have been refreshed on the screen, way less time than a full screen refresh. An old fashion spark gap Tesla coil might have to wait 0-16 ms to fire in sync with the 60 Hz mains oscillation, in worse case timing, puts it at the same speed as screen refresh.

In other words, it is hard for lightning not to win, without excessive specialized mice and monitors, or slow Tesla coil.

A high speed shot of a transparent spud cannon is nice though.

[Mech]

Last I heard, they held a contest to see how long it took some hackers to hack the internet browsers. Took them only minutes for Firefox and even shorter for Internet Explorer. Took them far longer to hack into Chrome, but that's because no one uses it so they figured why bother.

[TundraDarkstone]

Sound wave doesn't count. They went by how long it took for the paint to reach the ear, but notice that the camera picked up the sound before the paint got anywhere near it. Also, the potato....as funny as it is, that is a horrible test. The actual time that takes from ignition to the potato leaving the barrel is about half the loading time for any decent server. Third, the lightning is always faster. First off, that's my name, and second, that test is crap because they used a tesla coil. It takes about a second to charge up after it's turned on. I know sites that load up a lot faster than that.

[CaptainCool]

that was so incredibly awkward and random XD oh god what

[Kiboe]

Chrome OS, biggest invasion of privacy since the NSA wiretapping program.

also, potato?, lol,

and no, sound waves don't count, as they travel slowly to begin with, when an explosion happens like, say 50-100 ft in the air above you, you see it, but don't hear the explosion til 5-10 seconds after the blast.

[Melrius]

This may seem a bit off topic, but it does have to do with the interwebs! My comp got blue screened and I lost all my Chrome bookmarks...including my furry porn T_T. Now I cant remember the name of the sites. Anyone got any suggestions?

[pfhor]

Nice! I like Firefox though xD

[Kiboe]

the only reason firefox is slower is because it uses a tad bit more ram, but this is because the tap feature uses the ram.

i really see no difference in speed, but chrome browser uses alot less ram

[plasmagryphon]

... second, that test is crap because they used a tesla coil. It takes about a second to charge up after it's turned on. I know sites that load up a lot faster than that.

Depending on the kind, power supply of a Tesla coil can be charged easily in 10-30 ms. Plus the solid state kind can be charged and ready before the button is pushed.

and no, sound waves don't count, as they travel slowly to begin with, when an explosion happens like, say 50-100 ft in the air above you, you see it, but don't hear the explosion til 5-10 seconds after the blast.

The speed of sound near sea level is about 340 m/s or 1100 ft/s. So a sound 50-100 ft right above you will take about 0.045-0.09 seconds to get to you. In 5-10 seconds, sound would travel 1-2 miles. Relevant to the video, the time sound to go that foot or two from the speaker to big ear is about 1-2 ms.

When I saw the video, I just assumed it had the label "for entertainment purposes only," as there are plenty of ways of fraction of second delays can pop up with such things that can easily play to their favor. So the tests don't really show anything "useful" regardless of how fast or slow the things are by themselves. I was entertained by the eye-candy, but really timing should be done with a clock... or one could simply not care about subsecond delays and worry more about memory usage, features, and privacy once it is fast enough.

[Janglur]

Though Chrome requires Firefox to run, I'd rather stick with Firefox.

Uh, no the hell it doesn't. Chrome is it's own browser. I don't even have firefox. Too slow, memory leaky, and crashy.

[robomilk]

I used to use Firefox, before it memory leaked everywhere, deleted all the settings I had for it and crashed / ran horrifyingly slowly after more than an hour of constant use.

Then the same happened on my brother's computer...

Then the same thing happened on my parent's computer...

And, in fact, the same has happened to a lot of people I know. Every single person in my Computing class now uses Chrome for web browsing (most after extensions were released) and have yet to turn back to the Fox.

There are some things I miss about Firefox, Chrome doesn't have an FTP client extension and it's version of AdBlock Plus is somewhat inferior - but the adverts load quick enough that I've come to not really mind their presence.

And I do website development and WebKit (used by Chrome, Safari and as of the latest update, Steam) is the browser rendering engine for quick and standards compliant web browsing.

Go Chrome.

[calaverx11]

Web browser drama aside, the commercial is just fucking awesome.









O WAIT THIS IS THE INTERNET. I keep forgetting that web drama takes precedence over everything else.





BTW, I use Chrome, and I have yet to be contacted by the FBI for threatening the White House with blowing up bombs to kill the President of the United States and the burning the flag that says ALL HAIL ALLAH or whatever.

[Enkai]

I found this to be highly amusing and interesting but I still wouldn't ever trust Google or use their web browser.

[Windfiar]

Next, we test Google Chrome against the speed of drama.

Oh shit nothing can beat that.
Here watch.
-Generic flameing troll comment-

[calaverx11]

Also, for those of you whining about privacy issues with Big Bad Google Brother, use Chromium instead. Chromium is the open-source cross-platform foundation built from Webkit that Chrome is based on.

www.chromium.org

[ryoko]

its been said already but i'll say it too.


how fast a browser goes depends entirely on what type of internet used and how good the computer itself is. a piece of shit 10+ year old computer on dial up isn't going to go very fast regardless of what "fancy" browser it uses.



things like this are my button pushers. like those commercials for virus cleaners and its all like "your computer will go fast!"


...no it wont. your computer is slow because its an old outdated piece of shit and your circuits are most likely clogged with dust and physically degraded.

[TastesLikeGreen]

Hurry for biased adverts!

Yeah, I'm sure the results would be totally different if this were an ad for Lightning's new browser.

[CaptainSaicin]

I should probably mention I have 8 gigs of RAM, so I don't give a hoot if firefox uses 800MB of it.

[kitsukyo]

The lightning part was a bunch of bull. the mechanism used to click the mouse and press the button for the lightning was tilted towards the mouse!

[Villain]

I currently have 34 extensions installed and 217 tabs opened in Firefox (I keep them organized with TabGroups Manager and Tab Mix Plus). It uses 551MB of my 3.5 GB RAM, and is reasonably stable and performant.

I like my Foxie.