Chrome for linux stinks

[Khyron320]

I know its "beta" but what the reviewers dont tell you is that its using WINE in the background. I see several exe processes when i have chrome running on mint7. which seems to make chrome use twice the memory firefox uses.

Also hulu video goes black if you minimize then maximize. Firefox does not.

 

[VinDSL]

Hrm...

Chrome works fine (for me) on Ubu 9.10 -- better than on Win XP at work -- and much better than Fx (see below), obviously!

Here's a screenie: http://vindsl.com/images/chrome_sucks_eh.png (VinDSL.com - AT Forums on Chrome via Ubu 9.10 -- Firefox running in another workspace )

Got any POC screen shots, showing what you're talking about?!?!?

 

[Crusty]

Just because a file has a .exe file extension doesn't mean it's a windows binary file and therefore must be using WINE.

 

[Nothinman]

I know its "beta" but what the reviewers dont tell you is that its using WINE in the background. I see several exe processes when i have chrome running on mint7. which seems to make chrome use twice the memory firefox uses.

They don't tell you that because it's not true. And the multi-process architecture of Chrome probably does use a bit more memory than FF but the tradeoff is stability. If Flash crashes it doesn't take the whole browser down with it like it would in FF.

 

[Khyron320]

well mine is spawning far more exes than yours is. Why would it be listed in the process tab as exe? My experience with anything WINE is that its horribly slow in comparison to running something like that natively on windows.

I still dont understand how exe is not run under WINE. I mean did google really call a linux process "EXE" that would be in terribly bad taste.

 

[Nothinman]

well mine is spawning far more exes than yours is. Why would it be listed in the process tab as exe? My experience with anything WINE is that its horribly slow in comparison to running something like that natively on windows.

I still dont understand how exe is not run under WINE. I mean did google really call a linux process "EXE" that would be in terribly bad taste.

Most Mono/.Net executables still end in .exe for compatibility with Windows.

However, the only thing close to exe I see is /proc/X/exe which is a symlink to whatever binary you're looking at.

 ls -l /proc/13741/exe 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 0 Feb  6 17:23 /proc/13741/exe -> /opt/google/chrome/chrome

And even if were WINE, WINE isn't "horribly slow" IME.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I finally gave up my much-beloved Opera on Linux to move to the blazing fastness that is Chrome.

Sure, it's missing a few features and plugins are slow-coming, but even in its beta form, it's solid as a rock and fast as hell.

I don't think it's running inside Wine.. ^_^

 

[iGas]

I know its "beta" but what the reviewers dont tell you is that its using WINE in the background. I see several exe processes when i have chrome running on mint7. which seems to make chrome use twice the memory firefox uses.

Also hulu video goes black if you minimize then maximize. Firefox does not.

This post is made using Chrome 4.0.249.43 under Mint 7 X64 XFCE edition, and No WINE package/s installed.

PS. I'm in Canada, and Hulu streaming is not supported.

 

[ockky]

I finally gave up my much-beloved Opera on Linux to move to the blazing fastness that is Chrome.

Sure, it's missing a few features and plugins are slow-coming, but even in its beta form, it's solid as a rock and fast as hell.

I don't think it's running inside Wine.. ^_^

what slinger said. As a huge Opera fan, i have no problem confirming that Chrome's load time and responsiveness is much faster than firefox or opera for my ubuntu installation...this is on a crappy p4 2ghz lappy w/512 ram though

 

[iGas]

what slinger said. As a huge Opera fan, i have no problem confirming that Chrome's load time and responsiveness is much faster than firefox or opera for my ubuntu installation...this is on a crappy p4 2ghz lappy w/512 ram though

Chrome is quicker Opera & Firefox on my Athlon II X2 245 with 4 GB ram. Mint 7 Linux.

<--- also an Opera fan.

 

[VinDSL]

Chrome is quicker Opera & Firefox on my Athlon II X2 245 with 4 GB ram. Mint 7 Linux. [...]

I've been a Firefox fanboi since it was called "Phoenix". I still use Fx 99.9&#37; of the time, but...

I share a computer with approximately 10 other users at work (separate logins/user accounts). It's an old Dell P4 machine with 512K RAM and 40GB HDD. The OS is XP Pro (fully patched, maintained and regularly updated).

One of the users (probably accidental) installed Google Chrome a couple of months ago. I was bored, and decided to give Chrome a whirl, one day. At first, I thought, "OMG, what a POS!!!" The next day I tried it again, with the same reaction. The third day was like, "Okay, I see what they're doing!" LoL! Since the 4th day, Chrome is the only browser I've used at work (it even loads Citrix [a Java app] faster)... and that's been about a month, now.

On my work machine (XP Pro) IE8 is pure torture!!! Fx isn't much better. But, Chrome flies like the wind! :awe:

I've installed Chrome on my primary desktop box (Ubu 9.10) and laptop (Mint 7), here at the house too.

Personally, IME, Chrome runs better (and is more configurable) on Linux, than on Windows. The Linux version has more options available (in the menus). That, alone, tells me Chrome IS NOT a Win app running in Wine. And, I haven't had a single problem with Chrome on either platform -- here, or at work!

Truthfully, the only thing that keeps me from running Chrome full-time (at home) is -- Flash runs a little faster on Fx than Chrome, but (as said above) it's only in beta. Soooo, we'll see how it goes, but I'm V happy with Chrome, so far!

 

[Fox5]

Chrome on linux is awesome, runs way better than linux firefox for me. It's fast!

 

[Quake]

Huh?! Chrome does not require Wine. It's a Linux executable program, and in my opinion, much faster than Firefox.

 

[lxskllr]

I use Chrome on my netbook. Firefox really pounds my slow SSD, so even without adblock, Chrome's a bit quicker. When I upgrade, I'm going to format to EXT4. I think I've read Firefox is better with that setup. If so, I'll switch back to Firefox.

 

[HiME]

Chrome is much more stable for me under Ubuntu compared to Firefox... it also feels faster. There are still many areas that Chrome can be improved, but the fact that it is solid convinced me to switch over.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Chrome is much more stable for me under Ubuntu compared to Firefox... it also feels faster. There are still many areas that Chrome can be improved, but the fact that it is solid convinced me to switch over.

This is kinda strange because for me it's the opposite.

Konqueror is faster than either though, on everything even if i start up LXDE it requires less initial resources than either and starts faster then everything loads faster too (as a disclaimer, this might have to do with better usage of cache since i'm on a sattelite connection going through a proxy system)

 

[Gooberlx2]

I love chrome on Opensuse 11.2...especially now that they enabled bookmark syncing in one of the recent build releases.

Sure, the ad blockers aren't as effective as Firefox's (just hide/format stuff instead of actually blocking it), but otherwise the extensions are coming along nicely, and it's definitely faster and more stable overall vs firefox. Flash might occasionally take a tab down, but not the whole browser.

 

[HiME]

Forgot to mention... one problem that I have with Chrome under Ubuntu is that it doesn't support PDF viewing =(

I haven't figure out how to sync the bookmarks properly (will try again later).... last time that I tried it duplicated all my bookmarks so I got like two links for each site that I'd bookmarked.

Overall, Chrome had been solid =)

 

[Nothinman]

PDFs work fine for me, I've always hated that embedded PDF viewing bullshit Acrobat Reader tries to pull by default.

 

[cKGunslinger]

It seems Chrome for Linux really doesn't have an idea of a "temp" space, so in order to view PDFs, etc, you have to choose a download location, then open the file, then delete it when you are done. A minor annoyance, and one I hope they take care of soon.

 

[Fox5]

Lol, just had a funny thought, what if the OP downloaded the windows version and was running it in wine?

 

[Paperlantern]

I tried it on hulu and do not experience what the OP described either, so not sure what's up.

Ubuntu 9.10
P4 3.4GHz with 120GB HDD and 1.25GB RAM, Dell Inspiron 9100 Circa 2006.