Google Chrome 5.0.366.0 (dev) is Out and Looks Nice
I fired up Google Chrome this morning and noticed that it seems to update itself on each start-up, if necessary. A nice feature, to be sure. The current release is 5.0.366.0 (dev) and I have to say that a lot of my previous concerns about Chrome are slowly, but surely, starting to disappear as the browser matures.
Isn't that always the case? Getting the basics is relatively easy. Getting it polished, well... that's another thing entirely. My latest concerns were really focused on the responsiveness of the browser. It seemed to take a lot longer to get the data from the server than, say, Firefox or Safari. I'm not sure if they have done anything special with the sockets, or if their "every page a process" scheme is causing some additional overhead that the other two don't have, but there was a definite lag in Chrome that wasn't in the other two.
Thankfully, 5.0.366.0 (dev) seems to have cleared up a lot of this. It's actually about on par with Firefox now. Very interesting. I may have to use it for a day or two to see what it's like in more significant usage.