Why stop at Mac
Sorry, The Google, but Chrome is a bloated pig on more than just OSX. What version are you on now, 8241.3434.3434.2.2 or is it .3? How often does it check for updates? About every half a second or so?
Mac users will soon be able to run Chrome without watching their battery status fall by the minute, with Google tweaking the code to cut down unnecessary system wake-ups. The Chocolate Factory's main aim is to stop Chrome being a “battery hog”, according to Peter Kasting. Kasting, a senior software engineer in the Chrome UI …
Dump Adobe Flash. That would solve a whopping huge source of battery drain AND remove one of the two worse sources of malware on the Internet.
Banning Oracle's Java from Chromium would be the other great security idea.
Google, if you're REALLY serious about security, you know what to do. If you're not, it's status quo.
Chrome has been renamed to Choke on our iPhones and iPads at $HOME it has become a joke of who can have more crashes in a single evening!
There was a time our favourite game was spot the recycled TV star on another programme, but that's been replaced with "Oops, Choked, again" is the battle cry.
Sad really -- all that opportunity and this is what you get.
PS> I wish there was a Blues Brothers Rubber Biscuit Icon El Reg!!!!!
Well - to be more accurate based on WebKit which was developed by Apple as the HTML rendering engine of Safari.
I got really sick of Safari's memory management - continually leaking memory and chewing it up, requiring a quit about every five days. So I thought I'd try out Firefox which crashed a lot anyway and then Chrome which was even worse. So I'm back at Safari, hoping that some day Apple will make its memory management better (although I'm not convinced that automatic reference counting will ever do that).