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Eh, I doubt Apple would reject it. IIRC Mozilla already did something similar.
Care to explain?
They did a similar tab sync app skinned like a different browser. Of course, WebKit, not Gecko.
Chrome for iOS
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Re: Chrome for iOS
#82I downloaded it, and I like it. I wish they also had the swipe-to-right to see the browsing history.
This.
Drive me nuts that I can swipe left & right on my mac touchpad but can't on my iPad?! I don't want to tap those tiny arrows anymore :(
Re: Chrome for iOS
#83After using it for a while now it's made me realise there's a ton of features I've been missing when using mobile Safari:
-New tab with Most Visited and Recently Closed -Google Sync for bookmarks but more importantly it instantly empowers my Omnibox -the keyboard has an extra character row at the top that includes hyphens (simple but nice) -Swipe between tabs -find in page -Open in new tab defaults to opening in the background (I've missed this a lot) -unlimited tabs
I realise some of these aren't unique to mobile Chrome but as far as I'm aware they are missing from mobile Safari and they're the reasons I'll be sticking with Chrome.
Re: Chrome for iOS
#84Chrome doesn't support blocking of third party cookies. You either have them, or you don't.
Re: Chrome for iOS
#85Reopen closed tab? Google Chrome for iOS.
Re: Chrome for iOS
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Only JS execution is 3x slower -- everything else (DOM, layout, repaint, parsing) is the same. Most web pages (and even web applications) are rarely bottlenecked by JS execution speed. (There are a few exceptions to this rule...for example, the JS GameBoy Color emulator probably won't work very well)
You mean the same as Mobile Safari, not the same as Chrome, right? Because "repaint" is not part of WebKit proper (it's implemented separately in Chrome and Safari, for example). And even "layout" is different code on iOS and in other WebKit ports...
Yes, that's right: I'm comparing CriOS to Mobile Safari, not to Chrome for Android or PC/Mac.
That's an interesting point about layout. I hadn't even considered how font size adjustment and such comes into play.
Re: Chrome for iOS
#87Add this as a bookmark in Mobile Safari to be able to quickly open pages in Chrome: javascript:location.protocol='googlechrome'
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Re: Chrome for iOS
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Care to explain?
They did a similar tab sync app skinned like a different browser. Of course, WebKit, not Gecko.
Do you mean this?
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/home/
It doesn't even pretend to be a browser AFAIK.
Re: Chrome for iOS
#89Chrome for iOS doesn't use V8 or the Chromium fork of WebKit, just UIWebView. [0] Because it's using WebViews, it's about 3x slower than the OS's Safari browser [1], because WebViews in sandboxed apps don't get the "Nitro" JavaScript JIT from iOS 5 onwards (presumably for mark-executable security reasons). Unless the tab-sharing feature is crucial to more people than I thought, I don't think this app is going to be a…
I don't think this app is going to be a runaway hit.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57463546-93/google-chrome-a...
Most popular free application for iOS.
Marketing, better UI, sync features, herd mentality, who'll tell?
Re: Chrome for iOS
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did a similar tab sync app skinned like a different browser. Of course, WebKit, not Gecko.
Do you mean this? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/home/ It doesn't even pretend to be a browser AFAIK.
Yeah, Yahoo! Axis would be a better comparison.