Chrome Directory

John Resig, author of the JavaScript library JQuery, has conducted some performance tests of the major browsers (Chrome included) and posted the results.

I followed the instructions here. The only thing I needed to install was Scons but that was very straight forward. Just download the tar.gz file from here and run the following command in the uncompressed directory:

tar -xzf scons-1.0.0.tar.gz
cd scons-1.0.0
sudo python setup.py install

Now you’re ready to download and build V8:

cd ~/projects/thirdparty
svn co http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ v8-readonly
cd v8-readonly
scons
scons sample=shell

Everything should be built and now you can download the benchmarks and run them:

./shell run.js

Here’s the output I got:

You may get this unfamiliar but helpful page if Chrome suspects “an attacker on your network”. I got this when I didn’t type www.google.com but instead typed google.com:

Today, Google released it’s own web browser called Google Chrome. Initially in beta like many of it’s offerings and starting with a Microsoft Windows only version with a promise of Mac and Linux versions coming soon. Chrome combines some best of breed open source components and some new components like Webkit (also used in the Mac browser, Safari) and the V8 JavaScript Engine which was written from scratch to offer increased performance. Chrome itself is also entirely open source which leads some to worry about the security ramifications of this new browser.

The last couple of days have been very active with speculation on what this means for the browser market and the ever-growing competition between Microsoft and Google. Many believe that Chrome is a direct threat to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which currently has approximately 75 percent of the browser market.

More to come soon.

A day before it’s planned release to the public, a comic strip details Google Chrome, a new open source web browser. View the highlights.