From a real-world stand-point, I don’t find Chrome slow until the cache gets bloated, at which point I can experience issues.

I’ve been speaking against Chrome “speed” well since the browsers was starting to become the new kid in the block. Been dissed for it, ignored, laughed at, every time I brought it into discussion. The cache issue was one of my main problems with how Chrome operates, while the issues with the WebKit engine are know for at least 2 years. Meanwhile there’s also the obvious problem of extensions and the fact a browser speed (and to some extent, stability) is affected by the number and quality of the extensions it carries.

When I moved to Chrome from Firefox I did it over the general quality of Chrome. Never because of its speed, since quite frankly I can’t give a damn whether a browser takes 1.5 seconds to load instead of 1.2 seconds or whether a page loads 0.07 seconds faster. But I always fought against the wrong idea that Chrome was a faster browser. It’s not. never was. And whatever makes it faster after a fresh installation never, ever, is of any relevance to a typical web browser user. Web browsers are event-driven applications. They only do something if I click somewhere. They aren’t spider-like applications that need to address thousands of pages as fast as possible. The time it takes me to move my browser across the page to click on a link is generally bigger than the speed difference between modern browsers. If only the idiotic speed wars ended and the stability wars started!

Anyways, I’m curious to see how many chrome users will now buy into this piece of news. How many will suddenly “see” how chrome is really just as fast as any other browser, if not slower sometimes. I don’t find any consolation in “I told you so”. Not when I people constantly refused to listen to reason and decided to go instead with market preaching.

God, I hate to be right all the time!