Hot on the heels of me bigging up Chrome in a previous post I got a bit of a shock when I tried to visit Google adsense from Google Analytics

yes, I know it’s because of the ‘s’

So I was checking out my performancing advert on Randa Clays’ post about Trying out Google Chrome and I thought I’d give it a go myself.

ummm, could it be any faster? I thought it was obviously taking the piss somewhere. How come my site can load this fast? For the past few months I have been getting quite frustrated with how my sites perform when I load them in Firefox, even so far as to break out IE and use that when I have a lot of posts to write!!

That got me thinking, I love Firefox and its awfully good plugins like the web developer and such, I use them like.every.day but, is it slowing down because of all these extras? the answer is yes, yes it is.

That also got me thinking, is it faster because it’s new? probably just like when you get a new install of Windows and it loads up in seconds and programs don’t take an age to show the splash page only to go back to ‘normal’ within a few weeks of using (or in my case, within a day of me installing all the developer suite stuff)

But fast right? that’s what everyone is saying and for the life of me I can’t believe how much faster my pages load, all my sites seem to appear as if they were on another tab, hell even Firefox lately has been taking longer to switch to a new tab than it does for this thing to load my page afresh!

But no plugins right? well, to be honest, the only plugins that I absolutely need are the web developer ones and while I was checking out my CommentLuv site to see if the AJAX works on the settings page I noticed it didn’t show the form box for changing the cache age… dammit, that’s why it works so well, it’s half arsed!! but, nope, it was entirely my own fault…

It turns out that Chrome has it’s own debugger and source viewer with bells and whistles, I needed to know how to use the debugging console and I found this post by Eric about Basic information on Chromes’ Debugger.

By using the breakpoint function I was able to step through the code and find out exactly where the problem was occurring. It turns out that I had (again) put <script type=javascript etc in a file I was calling as src=.

So, now I am converted to Chrome. It does all that I need and does it fast. You should try out Chrome Browser for yourself, it downloads and installs quite quickly and has some nice features that are done well enough to make them look simple