Equipment used:
- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor - 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps

“Why does allrecipes.com in the potato gun sequence appear at once, and not the text first and images second? And why does it appear to render from bottom of the screen to the top?”

Chrome sends the rendered page to the video card buffer all at once, which is why allrecipes.com appears at once, and not with the text first and images second. Chrome actually paints the page from top to bottom, but to eliminate a shadow from the driver board, we had to flip the monitor upside down and set the system preferences in Windows to rotate everything 180 degrees, resulting in the page appearing to render from bottom to top.

“Why does the top one third of the page appear first on the weather.com page load?”

Sometimes only half the buffer gets filled before the video card sends its buffer over to the LCD panel. This is because Chrome on Windows uses GDI to draw, which does not do v-sync.

“The screen wipes are so smooth - how was that achieved?”

The screen wipes up in a gradated wipe because LCD pixels take around 10ms to flip and gradually change color.

More filming details below:
Chrome Browser vs. Potato:
We used a version of the web page allrecipes.com that is accessible when logged in. About four hours into the Potato Gun shoot we decided to use a locally loaded version of the web page to enable more precise synchronization with the potato gun. We finally got the shot we were hoping for after 51 takes.

Chrome Browser vs. Sound:
We loaded an artist page from Pandora.com, a streaming internet radio service directly off the web on a 15Mbps internet connection.

Chrome Browser vs. Lightning:
We used a locally loaded version of weather.com that was legally approved for use in this video (and all the standard website permissions procedures that goes into making videos!)

While we had a super fast 15Mbps internet connection in the studio, any live internet connection introduces quite a bit of variability. To run speed tests on page rendering times, saving locally and loading from the local disk can help reduce this variability.

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Read this article here

Very interesting! Google Chrome is blocked in some countries (Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan) :
Google says:

“In accordance with US export controls and economic sanctions regulations, we are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan.”

3. You can’t synchronise
One big plus of Firefox is its ability to synchronise across multiple computers using Mozilla’s Weave option. This arrangement allows you to keep your home browser, your laptop browser and your work browser looking identical at all times and once you get used to that level of synchronisation, it’s hard to give up. Chrome doesn’t yet have that capability.
4. You may draw the short stick on standards
5. You’re giving advertisers extra ammo
6. The drop-down bar is dropped
7. You lose some history power

You can find more here pcadvisor.co.uk

“The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can be triggered remotely.The vulnerability triggers when Carriage Return(\r\n\r\n) is passed as an argument to window.open() function. It makes the Google Chrome to generate number of windows at the same time thereby leading to memory exhaustion. The behavior can be easily checked by looking at the task manager as with no time the memory usage rises high. The problem lies in the handling of object and its value returned by the javascript function. Once it is triggered the pop ups are started generating. The Google Chrome browser generate object windows continuously there by affecting memory of the resultant system. Probably it can be crashed within no time. User interaction is required in this.”

More details on: zdnet.com

The new browser is based on Webkit, the advanced-standards-compliant, open source browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari for Mac and PC, but Chrome currently runs only in Windows. You figure that out.

Here are the new browser’s terms of service.

And here’s an important early bug report from Jeremy Jarratt: Google Chrome wrongly displays alternate styles as if active, thus “breaking” websites that use them. (Here’s more about alternate style sheets, from Paul Sowden’s groundbreaking 2001 A List Apart article.)
read the article on www.zeldman.com

The original description:
A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Say hello to Chromifox, a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome web browser.

The plugin link is:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8782

Install to firefox direct link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/37478/chromifox-1.0-fx.jar

How to use it

1. You need Google Chrome installed in order for this tool to work. It supports 0.2.149.27 version of Google Chrome.
2. Select a profile from drop down list and manipulate profile by selecting options on “Profile Tools” menu.
3. To backup current profile click on the profile, select “Backup Profile” and select a backup path. A new file which holds your profile is created.
4. To restore the old profile, click on the profile, select “Restore Profile” and navigate to *.gcb file you want to restore. Selected profile will be deleted and restored from the backup file.
5. Create new Google Chrome profiles and create shortcut on desktop, with switches that are supported.
6. Delete Google Chrome profiles.
7. Add Google Chrome profiles to Google Chrome backup tool.
8. Tray icon for fast access and fast run any profile.
9. Select option to run Google Chrome Backup at Windows Startup.

DOWNLOAD THE PLUGIN FROM www.parhelia-tools.com