Posts Tagged ‘Chrome’

My first time installing a Google Chrome extension was an extremely positive experience, no restarts, quick install, and an awesome plugin called Feedly. Feedly is essentially a feed reader, but it does its job in such an elegant way, that it rises out of all the other readers I’ve seen.

It’s available for Firefox and Chrome as an extension, and will pull your feeds from your Google account. Once installed you can go to the Feedly page to view your feeds, in a very user-friendly, magazine style view. You can view your feeds in a number of ways, my favorite is the cover view, which shows large thumbnails for most recent items on the left, and smaller thumbnails and excerpts for a list on the right. All the views offer great visuals, and good ways to browse, but where Feedly also excels is the reading/sharing/organization options.

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Over at Lifehacker, they do some  browser speed tests now and again, and I thought the results worthy to share with you guys. The subjects of this round were Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4 and Opera 10.5. In some areas you’ll find surprising results, especially in javascript use (Opera wins by a mile), and memory usage with extensions, which is won by Firefox.

Since I’ve been using Firefox for 10 minutes with about 6 tabs, and its eating away at half a Gb of memory, I find that hard to accept. I might have a really badly written extensions somewhere I guess, but compared to a lot of people, I hardly use any extensions at all.

To be completely honest, until now, I didn’t really care about browser speed tests because Firefox was just so ahead of the game, that the features it offered far surpassed any speed problems. Even if you had to reboot, or restart Firefox every hour, it was still worth it for your productivity. However, nowadays that Chrome is right behind Firefox (Opera is fine as well, I just never really made a connection to it) I just might change browsers for speed reasons.

For the complete list of comparisons, along with nice bar charts, take a look at the full post on Lifehacker.