Chrome is still a threat to your MacBook's battery AND your Surface too

[VickiFL]

You need to kill all Chrome background processes as well... preventing it from launching at Startup.

I just checked start up, and there is nothing there from Chrome. I'll give it a few more days.

 

[VickiFL]

I have to say, video playback in IE is horrid compared to Chrome. I'm not liking it at all.

 

[leeshor]

I just checked start up, and there is nothing there from Chrome. I'll give it a few more days.

Check in task manager under processes. It may surprise you.

 

[VickiFL]

Thank you. I just did, and nothing for Chrome.

Is there a reason video playback is so horrid in IE? (I'm using desktop version.) Video is choppy, and takes forever to load.

 

[GreyFox7]

Thank you. I just did, and nothing for Chrome.

Is there a reason video playback is so horrid in IE? (I'm using desktop version.) Video is choppy, and takes forever to load.

Must be some anomaly, I have never experienced that as the norm but then I never install Chrome anymore.

 

[hughlle]

All I can say is that's not the case with some of my customers. They can use Firefox and not exhaust resources even with the Chrome stub loaded.

I know it's not normal. I should add i use the win 10 preview, and it seems that it is something related to flash. Firefox was ok up until i had to install flash for it and once flash is installed, the machine just goes haywire.

 

[TunaSurface]

So is the Spartan browser available to those with the preview version of Windows 10?
I've heard nothing of it yet and I'm extremely interested in it.
It definitely has potential since everybody hated IE so much, the dev team must take extra precautions even in the smallest of details.
Let's hope Spartan will be my go to browser in the future.

 

[hughlle]

So is the Spartan browser available to those with the preview version of Windows 10?
I've heard nothing of it yet and I'm extremely interested in it.
It definitely has potential since everybody hated IE so much, the dev team must take extra precautions even in the smallest of details.
Let's hope Spartan will be my go to browser in the future.

Spartan is indeed available with the latest build of win 10. However at this point in time it is a buggy pile of poop. Looks like it has a lot of potential though once they sort out all the niggles

 

[TunaSurface]

Spartan is indeed available with the latest build of win 10. However at this point in time it is a buggy pile of poop. Looks like it has a lot of potential though once they sort out all the niggles

I tried searching but have no clue what it actually looks like, excluding the bugs, does it seem like it's touch screen friendly? More specifically Surface Pro friendly? Also a screencap wouldn't hurt

 

[hughlle]

Much more touch friendly. Big buttons. Buggy as hell though. Also has inking support meaning you can ink directly onto websites. I dont use it whatsoever at present, largely because it is mostly unusable, but it has great potential.

 

[TunaSurface]

Looks neat, thanks for the picture. Big buttons are great and the inking feature will surely come in handy when mirroring to a big screen to show something. Can't wait for Windows 10 overall.

 

[VickiFL]

Must be some anomaly, I have never experienced that as the norm but then I never install Chrome anymore.

I wish I knew what the anomaly was because this is crazy. I went back to using Chrome, and the video playback problem disappeared.