[olug] Browser Benchmarking

[T. J. Brumfield]

My only beef with Chrome is that a group of Windows developers who
know nothing of cross-platform programming made it very Windows
centric, which makes porting it hard, and now completely seperate Mac
and Linux teams are working on ports while the Windows version is
still under heavy development.

And the Linux version is going to use GTK.  GTK is why Firefox on
Linux is so slow and cumbersome, and has absolutely terrible file
dialogs.

The Linux Chromium team said that GTK was the official toolkit of
Linux.  Sheesh.

If it had been developed on Qt from day one (Qt has native bindings to
Webkit!  It makes incredible sense!) then it would have been
multiplatform from day one.  And we'd be running it on Mac and Linux
today.  It would be faster than the GTK version they are making, and
the code would be easier to maintain than three seperate platform
forks in the future.

This was an amazingly poor decision making process on the part of Google.

I never intend to use the browser.  I hope some of the sandboxing
concepts get applied to other browsers.

-- T. J.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> I usually use firefox but I kind of like Iron.
>
> http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
>
> I don't wear a tin foil hat but I am not a fan of search engine plugin/bars
> on my browser.
> So I guess I am a little skeptical of a search engine made browser.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Brady Cox
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:45 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Browser Benchmarking
>
> Nice to see Chrome scores well.  Hope it comes out for Linux and Mac soon.
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>> Cool.
>>
>> Nice Hedberg quote
>> I made this funny little one liner.
>>
>> curl -O http://hedburgh.com/quoter.php | sed -n '38p' quoter.php >
>> mhquote.html
>>
>> ......and I thought Mitch Hedburg was dead.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Chad
>> Homan
>> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 4:40 PM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: [olug] Browser Benchmarking
>>
>> http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action
>>
>> Chad, CISSP
>>
>> Mitch
>> Hedberg<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mitch_hedberg.html>
>> - "I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."
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