Deep Jive Interests

So I’ve been using Chrome for a little while.  I still likes it, but there are a few things that have come to my attention that require me updating my original post.  One retraction of sorts, and two other things that greatly annoy (and maybe its just me).

1. Chrome isn’t as “small” as I thought: I cottoned on to this fairly quickly after my initial post.  Chrome isn’t kidding when it talks about thinking of each tab as its own set of processes;  if you have a look at the Windows Task Manager, you’ll find there are many many instances of Chrome floating around, probably in some way representing all of the separate silo’d processes that Chrome is touting.  Yes, this is probably good for stability.  But I was initially bufalloed into thinking that Chrome only took up, say, 40-60mb of memory, when in fact, that was only a single “process” I was picking up.  On heavier days, Chrome uses easily as much as Firefox, that is, in excess of 100 mb of RAM, and possibly almost 150 mb.

2. Chrome has problems resolving URLs: I’m not sure what it is, but for some reason I’ve noticed that Chrome has a problem with resolving URLs.   You know: websites.  Its inconsistent with the kinds of websites, but some of them are big and some small.  It drives me nuts, because there’s no particular rhyme or reason to it.

3.  Chrome shows your most visited websites — and you can’t change that (for now): When you open up a new tab, Chrome “helpfully” shows your most visited URL’s via your web history.  If you have not decided to be discrete via the “incognito” function, you might find some surprising URLs that show up that you might not want others to see.  Case in point: I was looking for a gift for my wife the other day.  POOF — URL shows up when she decides to try Chrome the other day.  In this “SFW” example, I was busted and embarassed.  But in this iteration of Chrome this is something you cannot change, alter, or delete single sites, and instead have to delete your entire browsing history.