Chrome, Google's browser

You know, this little browser isn't too bad. However, I opened the task manager to see how much RAM it was using and I found that it always uses 2 processes even though I only have one window open. The one thing I did like about it though is that it only use about 15 MB for each of those instances. I also noticed that every tab I opened was creating a separate process and when said tab was closed, the process would end thus clearing that bit of RAM.

I don't know how they came up with that but, goddamnit, that's fucking genius. Where Firefox was clocking in a massive 275+ MB for me with my Gmail tab, my work email tab, GFF, stock.xchng and Digg open Chrome only clocked (an estimated) 120 MB.

That's a huge fucking difference for me, guys.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If I remember correctly, Firefox 2 allowed you to switch tabs around too. I could be wrong though. I also want to know about this "carpetbomb" crash bug or whatever that is.

EDIT:
Is there any word on a Mac version of this?

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Originally Posted by Sousuke

I miss middle-clicking links and automatically switching to a new tab.

You shouldn't. The latest built has that fixed now.

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I'm also not too fond of the blue 'frame' they give you in XP. I like how the frame sort of 'adapts' to either XP or Vista, but I think it should still try to follow your current visual style. The blue just doesn't fit, really.

Right now I'm not too concerned with how the browser looks so long as it works. I'm sure they'll be adding skins to it later.

Another thing I did notice today is that this browser isn't really playing nice with Flash-intensive sites. It doesn't crash the browser for me but, oh lawdy does it run slow on my old Pentium machines.

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