Chrome and Seinfeld

So, Google’s new browser came out last week. I picked it up about 15 minutes after it was put up for download, but found it to be slow… Very slow… However, I also found Firefox 3 to be the same way for the first week (my guess is because of all the people downloading it) and decided to dig it back up in about a week. Well, right now I’m using it, and I find it’s faster than Safari, which I was previously using, by a lot. YouTube videos also run better, and sites with a lot of Javascript on them run very fast. However, text or HTML only sites run a bit slower, and because each tab is aprocess, it’s not light on the system resources. With three tabs open (YouTube.com, Gmail.com, and WordPress.com) I see SIX chrome processes each taking up 5-45k of resources. Firefox generally uses 80k, Opera 30k, and Safari 35k. Chrome’s using about 127k. I dont’ know if previous tab’s processes just didn’t quit out, but it’s pretty surprising to see. It’s also surprising that it’s doing nothing to my computer. I have a 2.4GHZ Pentium 4 with 1.5GB of RAM (and a Geforce 6200, if you care)and running Firefox slows down my computer, but running Chrome, Zoom Music Player, and installing a program don’t slow me down at all.

Anyway, I saw this on the TV. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY
Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s odd. My first guess was that MIcrosoft thought that they had too much money, so they hired Seinfeld for $300 million, rented the Mall for $10 million, and put together a crap ad to say that they’re crazy. Then I thought that maybe it was some kind of cruel spoof on Microsoft. However, after thinking about it, they must somehow be referring to Valve’s game, Portal. In Portal, the Cake that you’re told is the reward is quoted as being “moist” and “delicious” by a computer, GlaDOS. At the end of the ad, Microsoft says “delicious”. Also, during the ad, Jerry Seinfeld talks about a moist computer that you can eat. Not far off from a cake, eh?