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Google Chrome 10 beta - Faster JavaScript, GPU acceleration, and more!

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | February 18, 2011, 4:57am PST

Google has just released Chrome 10 beta (10.0.648.82 for all you perfectionists) and it brings with it a whole slew of new things to play with.

First off, there’s a significant JavaScript performance boost thanks to the updated V8 engine. According to Google, this version of the V8 engine offers a 66% performance advantage over the current stable release. That alone is pretty impressive.

This beta also adds GPU acceleration for video. For those running video in full-screen mode this can mean a decrease in CPU usage of as much as 80%. A good thing for those living off battery.

Another new feature is that the browser setting page now opens in a tab of its own rather than in a separate window. A small change but one that makes a lot of sense. There’s also a handy search box to allow you to find the specific setting you are looking for. Might not be needed by geeks, but dead handy for everyone else (Hey, Microsoft! Here’s a setting that would be really handy for IE users … fire up those photocopiers!).

Syncing now includes saved passwords, along with bookmarks, preferences, themes and extensions. Synced passwords can be encrypted with a separate passphrase.

Download Google Chrome beta 10 here.

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Chrome copies Intenet Explorer again

sagec 18th Feb 2011

GPU acceleration, wow, such innovation!

Tab process isolation: copied from IE8
Sandboxing: copied from IE7

Now go open your browser to your favorite website, then open this power meter in another tab in IE9, then do the same in Chrome and compare :-S

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/PowerMeter/Default.html

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IE7 & IE8 are extremely clunky, slow and insecure compared to Chrome.

DonnieBoy 18th Feb 2011

IE9 gets Microsoft closer, but, it will still be slower than Chrome. And, of course Microsoft continues to copy rivals and make improvements, but, I do not think it will be enough to stop the market share slide.

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rhonin 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy
It may not, but with ie9 I am once again using ie...
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Well, IE9 will get the curiosity of a few, but, if MS does not move fast to

DonnieBoy 18th Feb 2011

improve Java Script and HTML5 conformance, the slide will continue. The funny thing, if MS does move fast enough, web applications will take off, and Windows will become irrelevant. Funny to watch them squirm.

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bobiroc 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy

What is this..Donnie talking about Windows and Microsoft becoming irrelevant again? Wow! Who could have predicted that.

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Well, the world is a changin' in case you did not notice. There are almost

DonnieBoy Updated - 18th Feb 2011

zero webstites that do not work equally well with all the browsers. Comepare that to even 5 years ago. Also, look at mobile, including tablets, which most agree is the next important frontier, and see what Microsoft's share is. It is getting much easier to get by without Windows.

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Microsoft won't be irrelevant for a long time

Michael Alan Goff 18th Feb 2011

Neither will Windows, nor will Internet Explorer become irrelevant. Most people, shockingly enough, don't care about HTML5 or fake Javascript tests. They care about real life performance, and they care about using 'what works'.

If everyone cared about what got the highest score on the HTML5 test and/or Sunspider? They'd all be using Chrome right now. Also, no, it isn't 'getting easier' to get by without Windows.

Aside from a majority of the games in the world being made for it, there are also superior office tools. Yes, a lot of games are on the Mac... but most people don't pay twice as much for the same thing just for the honor of having a Mac.

Linux sure as hell isn't ready for the masses yet.

Office
Goof Programming Tools
Easy to use

Maybe I could move away from using Windows primarily, but it wouldn't give me much, if any, benefit right now. I love what Linux is doing, don't get me wrong, but it still has a ways to go.

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Justin071894 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy We understand that you don't like Microsoft, but you can't down them for everything that they do! If Microsoft had not have done a lot of the things they did ... we wouldn't be where we are today!

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Guys, the point is, people are less tied to Windows than ever before.

DonnieBoy 18th Feb 2011

Win32 is fading fast, and Silverlight is not gaining any traction.

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Tim Acheson 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy "IE9 gets Microsoft closer, but, it will still be slower than Chrome."

Feel free to cite evidence to support that claim, but you cannot, because it is false.

Absolute nonsense. IE9 is faster than Chrome. We already have test results from Facebook's new advanced HTML5/JavaScript speed test framework. Chrome looks good in V8 benchmarks because it's built to look good in those simplistic benchmarks.

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ItsTheBottomLine 18th Feb 2011

@bobiroc
Exactly. Give him credit, he is consistently trivial... and usually wrong.

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Tim Acheson 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy "if MS does not move fast to
improve Java Script and HTML5 conformance, the slide will continue. The funny thing, if MS does move fast enough, web applications will take off"

What are you talking about? The official body, the W3C, has already confirmed that IE9 is the most HTML5-compliant browser. (What do you mean by "JavaScript conformance"??)

Web applications took off years ago. And Microsoft led the way. Have you used SkyDrive or MS Office web apps? Facebook is a web app.

I don't understand why some people will attempt to discuss a topic that you know absolutely nothing about. This is why popular misconceptions about IE are so endemic.

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ItsTheBottomLine 18th Feb 2011

@Justin071894
your exactly correct...something that must be a bitter pill to swallow.

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Justin071894 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy please tell me how Win32 is failing and how Silverlight is not gaining traction? Is it because it's a Microsoft product and in your eyes anything that even remotely is related with Microsoft is a total dud?

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alawishis 18th Feb 2011

@goff256 isn't Android built on a Linux kernel. Android seems to be doing well with the masses, or am I wrong.

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ItsTheBottomLine 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy It's interesting. Google has recently admitted (for lack of a better term) that Web Applications are not the end all, and that local application with web integration is a better way. We have seen that here. Users are rejecting the Web Apps, other than for niche areas - which they are very good in. Overall... they want the localized apps.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/google-to-make-mobile-apps-because-users-do-not-want-web-apps/765?tag=nl.e539

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@ alawishis

Michael Alan Goff 18th Feb 2011

Yes, Linux does have its place. Android is a good example of good Linux. I was referring more to the Desktop arena, where it has been hovering for a while with less than 5% of users.

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rengek 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy
@DonnieBoy
ummm web applications took over years ago. Where have you been. And a huge chunk of them are .net based. Thats why .net is so popular. Just look at all the jobs out there for .net developers.

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aditya.kmg 18th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy
I Agree.
Sure IE9 comes closer, but there are still a lot of areas where works need to be done. The video loading is still a bit messy, and the worst experience is when you open a pdf page. The whole browser just comes to a stand-still most of the times and whats worse is you cant even move to the other tabs.
My word, Chrome always! happy

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PB_z 18th Feb 2011

Notice how Donnie mentions "Java Script and HTML5 conformance" -- but fails to mention CSS 2.1 conformance. IE9 Beta (not sure what the RC's number is at) "passes 18960 of the 19403 tests (97.7%)" of the official CSS 2.1 test suite (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/10/08/css-2-1-implementation-reports.aspx).

Results for other browsers:
Firefox 4.0b6: 93.83%
Opera 10.70: 90.05%
Chrome 6: 87.21%
Safari 5: 85.82%

(from http://www.1-script.com/forums/CSS-2-1-test-suite-Implementation-reports-of-browser-vendors-article41311--8.htm)

(Note: this is as of October 2010; the test suite has probably been changed slightly in the time since, and newer browser versions probably have slightly higher numbers.)

Just think if someone took all the tests that IE passes that the others don't and put them into an Acid test. IE would score 100% while others would be close to zero. (That's just to show that these acid types of tests -- of which caniuse.com, html5test.com, etc. -- don't have much value. Only the official test suites tell the real story about a browser's standards compliance.

Plus, everyone clamoring for even more CSS3 support in IE (compared to what they are delivering in IE9) should note that the test suites for the majority of CSS3 are completely nonexistent. The modules that Apple so generously plopped in front of the W3C and said "adopt these now!" such as transitions and 2D/3D transforms have no test suite. If someone is going to plop a mostly-finished spec down and expect people to implement it, they should also plop down a corresponding test suite.

P.S. I can't find the link, but I'm pretty sure I read that even IE8 has a higher percentage conformance than Firefox (i.e. above 93%)...

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DOM make the Difference

bcchong Updated - 18th Feb 2011

I agree with @DonnieBoy, Chrome 10 is faster .

Hey guys, speed of a browser not solely depend on javascript but also on DOM manipulation.
http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/perf/dom/artificial/core/001.html

Try run test above on both IE9 & Chrome 10, u would know.
DOM make diff.

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ThereThere 19th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy
Is this topic about IE?

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i2fun@... 19th Feb 2011

@DonnieBoy IE9 only supports bogus GPU acceleration of presently plain coded HTML and CSS Simulated 3D (like plastic leatherette.. haha). Safari, Opera, Firefox and Chrome will fully support W3C WebGL standards

http://o3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/io/io.html

These are the samples of REAL 3D Rendered Web content. Not the Simulated 3D of IE9 ..... no I mean like the Simulated 3D Pleather (simulated leather) of IE9 that's like chewing on plastic gummy bears with false teeth!!! lol...... yeah your falsies stick more together than they do to your gums! grin

http://code.google.com/p/webglsamples/

Now go download a real browser to try this stuff out. Like Safari, Opera, Firefox or Chrome (now the fastest of the whole lot..... including IE9 beta smeta schmatta.... what ta hey.. ll?! ..eh? lol... M$ is too cheap to invest in Next Gen 3D Technology? wink

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Earthling2 20th Feb 2011

@ii2fun@... I am curious if 3D support will be implemented as a "native code plugin": http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/20/googles-native-client-almost-ready-for-takeoff-ready-to-make/

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i2fun@... 20th Feb 2011

@Earthling2 Yeah... I've been watching this too. Although they already have their O3D plugin for WebGL working pretty sweet and usable in any browser that accepts plugins. Even IE! But with this direct loading full native game code via the use of the Browser as a rendering display only..... things will be simply awesome. It's a bit like On-Live web client in a way with a supperior delivery method and without the hassles of Java Except it's not using Java or Web container like FLASH!

The difference between MS's IE 3D Game or Apps (.net) Streaming and Google's approach is World's apart. For MS, it was back to the old Security Failure of ActiveX for Microsoft (described by the NSA as having the worst security ever). Although they do have a partial trusted browser sandbox now, it only protects the OS from apps/extensions to a degree. The browser itself is not fully sandboxed (note IE9 RC already Zero Day exploitable). Nor is the OS itself (like Chrome OS and Chrome browser).

On Chrome OS or Chrome Browser, since you can't attack every element of the browser or OS at once, it can't be readily attacked. You are actually running them in a fully virtualized environment. This makes it extremely difficult to take down a full game (or even native app like Office), when it's all compartmentalized and sandboxed away from each component (just like the browser and Chrome OS). As they then just restart each event/app/component automatically.

So this will not only be good for games, but fully coded native applications run via the cloud, via SPDY protocol assist (Google's new protocol assist) and new extremely fast and secure IPV6 Jumbograms. They are like Mack Trucks carrying signs saying, "I'm a BIG Mofo, so you better move out of my way, I'm coming through"! .....thus Games or Applications will run at near native speed fully hardware accelerated!

btw.... haha... Now we'll begin to see the payback for Microsoft depending on developing a Browser that is an integral part of the OS itself. It may of kept them clear in court to a degree, but now it's a great liability!!! haha..... grin

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Ez_Customs 1st Mar 2011

@DonnieBoy

This stuff hasnt' been Copied from Chrome! ever sense IE had plug in options this stuff has been availabel, and even in 7. there isn't much stating Chrome is anything good, and well IE9 dfoes own Chrome 10. If I feel like participating this argument look for my Youtube stuff as ez0469. Chrome never beat IE8 and barely par'd 7 depending on what it was, but chrome only excells on slow trashy PC' sense windows 7 Chrome doesn't win. Orca Browser and IE9 for me. Both own Chrome in ther designate areasd, and in Frame rates and usage IE9 Takes Chrome 10 with ease, by about 12% more frames per second in streaming content, while using Mark-up 5

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Justin071894 18th Feb 2011

@jacec Ok you go out there and try to create a web browser that doesn't "copy" features for another browser. Everyone "copies" or borrowes ideas from everyone else. Isn't that why the internet was invented? To share ideas and things that have already been done so were not doing it over and over again happy

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russdwright@... 18th Feb 2011

@Justin071894 Touche!

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ItsTheBottomLine 18th Feb 2011

@Justin071894 Amen...and look no response.

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sagec 18th Feb 2011

@Justin071894

Gotcha. No hard feelings now wink

And btw, well said :-D.

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bigpicture 18th Feb 2011

@jacec "Linux sure as hell isn't ready for the masses yet?" So what do you think Android is? What do you think Google and a lot of other servers run on? What do you think the Jeopardy winning computer was running on? What century do you live in?

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He was replying to something that mentioned Windows

LiquidLearner 18th Feb 2011

@bigpicture

on the desktop becoming irrelevant. I love the way Linux fans always distort what was said. He was clearly referring to Linux on the desktop and last I checked he's right. There are numerous reasons it does well in the server room and for a device that has one particular ROM the manufacturer supports and I'm not going to keep repeating them. Just learn context please.

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Michael Alan Goff 18th Feb 2011

Servers are running Chrome 10?

I thought it was used mainly on desktops, which I was referring to.

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sagec 18th Feb 2011

@bigpicture

Reply to the wrong person much?

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clfitz 21st Feb 2011

@bigpicture
He said "for the masses." Servers and the Jeopardy computer hardly qualify.

And Android? Well, you have a point there, but go ahead and try installing it on your PC. Android is a fine example of a Linux implementation that IS ready for the masses, but so far I haven't seen it anywhere but on phones.

Plus, my Droid is nowhere near as customizable, even rooted, as any other flavor of Linux that I've tried. I can't even change the display fonts unless I change the theme.

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bagh11@... 18th Feb 2011

@jacec And what department of Microsoft do you work for?

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sagec 18th Feb 2011

@bagh11@...

Gotcha. No hard feelings...

Have to say though, never had this much fun with a "first in, hit the ABMers first for a change" post. :-D

I actually work for a Microsoft competitor, their largest competitor in fact, for two of their/our product lines.

As a software engineer myself, I like good software no matter who it comes from. I try to use best of breed in whatever application I select.

Hopefully the ABMers see some of my replies to know that my post was tongue-in-cheek. Some of them could use a reality check, software isn't a religion...

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windozefreak 18th Feb 2011

@jacec
You're right! Plus syncing passwords, right out of IE9.

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haha..... IE9 wasn't out yet when Chrome was syncing Passwords!

i2fun@... 18th Feb 2011

@windozefreak It's obviously not sandboxed (like Chrome is), because IE9 was hit just like the rest of IE versions...... again, by another Zero Day Exploit discovery!!!

What did IE get with their Browser extensions? ....yeah, viruses, rootkits, malware and trojans from the worst scourge in Internet history all made available by MS's own VBS and Active X extensions. Now those are what you useful extensions! haha.... right, only to malware and virus designers!!!

IE10 will still be lagging behind the speed of the first Chrome Beta! ......that is if there is one!

In actual web use analysis, IE is an also ran. But you fools like to include it only because it's a forced install on every copy of Windose!!!

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programit@... 18th Feb 2011

@jacec Try running non microsoft tests of performance and compatability with IE 9. Its HTML 5 and CSS 3 capabilities are appalling, and its still slower than the old firefox or chrome! AS always Microsoft is 2 years behind in most fields (OS, Search, Phone, Browser .. . . . )
Chrome is currently the one to beat, and unfortunately microsoft is still in their own little world. Slowly losing ground to everybody.

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IE9 is indeed fast

Alex G. (DV411) 18th Feb 2011

@jacec On some tests IE9RC is indeed faster than Chrome:

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/depth-of-field/?f=

Impressive. Never thought I'd see a day when IE would beat Chrome to the punch. In another test I favor, YouTube 4K playback, IE9 is about as fast as Cr11 - although most of the improvement is in the Flash 10.2 plugin.

Then again, IE9's UI is a spitting image of Chrome minimalistic UI approach. IE should say "thank you" to Google for forcing MS to improve the security and performance of its browser - which was Google's intention all along.

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bvonr@... 18th Feb 2011

@Alex G. (DV411) I personally like IE9 better than Chrome, not because of it's speed but because I have a 26" monitor and Chrome still looks like a 800x600 resolution. The fonts are bigger and fuzzier on Chrome and bright and crisp on IE9.

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Everything but....

Joe.Smetona 19th Feb 2011

@jacec ...The ability to transmit malware at the speed of light. happy

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i2fun@... Updated - 19th Feb 2011

@jacec Yeah... GPU acceleration that actually fully accelerates 3D web application rendering with things like Occlusion Mapping, Particle Effects, Real Transparency (not simulated like IE web) being designed right now around the web (need O3D plugin). Unlike Microsludge that only accelerates the plain software HTML and CSS coded web content alone!!! haha.... big woopi, like using the GPU to render what the CPU is already best at HTML and CSS. Whereas WebGL accelerates actual 3D graphics rendered code and M$ sludge still has no plans to support what is being included in W3C Open Browser Standards!

Much of the web is now being designed for that and actual OpenGL ES 2.0 3D applications that Opera, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome are actually prepared for.

They are using (get this.... lol) the DirectX drivers (or OpenGL Drivers if present and Nvidia and AMD/ATI are now going to be default included. So F.... off M$ and all you haters) that are all ready on Windows System Installs via OpenGL ES 2.0 by proxy!!! haha....

BTW.... yes, Google is still working on their own web 3D graphics engine plugin using their own O3D engine. But they have thrown their full support for development on the side of W3C Open Standards 3D via WebGL as well. Will Microcrude ever get onboard? No!!! ...we're heading for another IE3-IE6 catastrophe in the works by them refusing to go by W3C Standards...... AGAIN!!! .....but with the brainless wonder still doing his monkey dance and throwing chairs at Google, what do you fools expect? lol.....

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Valis666 20th Feb 2011

@jacec So how long does it take you to get to your office in Redmond?

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Loverock Davidson 18th Feb 2011

And Google still gets to track all your data and claim anything you type in the browser becomes their property!

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radleym 18th Feb 2011

@Loverock Davidson
Aaah, Loverock - what would Talkback be like without your words of wisdom? Surely you can find a way to fit in how bad linux is?
Get that thinking cap on!!!
LOL

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Cylon Centurion Updated - 18th Feb 2011

You know what's fun to do? Downloading Chrome and setting the default search engine and homepage to Bing. I wonder how much they love seeing that. Then uninstalling it, and tell them you'll be using IE. Lol

I gave up Chrome for Firefox and IE9. Also, the fact that multiple .google.com domains were being dialed every few minutes too threw up some red flags. No other browser dials home..... I wonder what Chrome dials?

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bobiroc 18th Feb 2011

@Cylon Centurion 0005

That's funny about telling them you use something else when you uninstall it. In every computer I find the Google Toolbar on that got installed because of some stupid program or add in making the "opt-in" checked by default I tell them that Google Toolbar Sucks or something along those lines when the little survey pops up.

I also find it funny when I show people how much better their IE browser runs without all that crap installed. Some may be surprised to know that most people do not recall how things like toolbars or other software like Chrome and Safari and other items that basically force Opt-In get installed and most want it removed.

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dazzlingd 18th Feb 2011

@Cylon Centurion 0005
I have been running Chrome and IE9. What disturbs me is that even when I set default search to Bing, Google knows what I am doing.

For example, I was looking for a new CPU fan for my HTPC and searched using Bing via Chrome. A relatively obscure search. Later on I went over to a news site (non technical.) I saw target advertising about CPU fans from Tiger Direct. I saw this on a couple of other sites too.

Thinking it was something on Bing, I tried similar obscure searches from IE and Firefox, again using Bing (through the Bing bar and through the site.) I didn't see any targeted advertising at the same sites.

I then changed search to Google and did the same with IE and Firefox. Again no targeted advertising.

While I like Chrome the browser, I don't like the Spyware aspect of it.