Chrome 27 Beta: ~5% Faster, New HTML5 Inputs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 27 Beta: ~5% Faster, New HTML5 Inputs

There's some more interesting web-browser related news. Google has pushed out the beta of their Chrome 27 browser and it comes with several new user-facing features...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM0MzY

[Nuc!eoN]

Still no OSS audio support though, grr. I switched to Opera now, at least until it will be implemented (if ever).

[Ericg]

Still no OSS audio support though, grr. I switched to Opera now, at least until it will be implemented (if ever).

Considering OSSv4 was abandoned 6years ago I'm gonna guess you're a FreeBSD user?

[fa5hion]

Still no OSS audio support though, grr.

Yeah, but I heard 27 was supposed to bring native pulseaudio support. Has anyone tested it out yet?

[newwen]

Yeah, but I heard 27 was supposed to bring native pulseaudio support. Has anyone tested it out yet?

It doesn't already?
Anyway, Google is developing its own audio server (CRAS) for Chrome OS

[fa5hion]

It doesn't already?
Anyway, Google is developing its own audio server (CRAS) for Chrome OS

Chrome wasn't using pulseaudio directly but through the compatibility layer (alsa) instead. And answering to myself, the new pulseaudio output seems to work fine. The application identifies itself as Chromium in the mixer though.

[ryao]

Considering OSSv4 was abandoned 6years ago I'm gonna guess you're a FreeBSD user?

OSSv4 does not appear to be abandoned. They did a release last year:

http://www.opensound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4754

[Ericg]

OSSv4 does not appear to be abandoned. They did a release last year:

http://www.opensound.com/forum/viewt...hp?f=19&t=4754

Weird... Arch must need to update their packages

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/c...ty/x86_64/oss/ (look at the name)

[Nuc!eoN]

Weird... Arch must need to update their packages

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/c...ty/x86_64/oss/ (look at the name)

2007 is not the year but the build number. I use ArchLinux not BSD.

Chromium has no OSS support, it only works through ALSA emulation (didn't work for some releases but in 26 it's been fixed).

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158478

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19470

OSS has the least latency and I don't see no reason to use ALSA or even Pulse (although pulse works also on top of OSS I think). With ALSA my latency was unacceptable.

Here are very good articles comparing Linux sound systems:

http://insanecoding.blogspot.de/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html

http://insanecoding.blogspot.de/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html

[Ericg]

2007 is not the year but the build number. I use ArchLinux not BSD.

Chromium has no OSS support, it only works through ALSA emulation (didn't work for some releases but in 26 it's been fixed).

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158478

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19470

OSS has the least latency and I don't see no reason to use ALSA or even Pulse (although pulse works also on top of OSS I think). With ALSA my latency was unacceptable.

Here are very good articles comparing Linux sound systems:

http://insanecoding.blogspot.de/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html

http://insanecoding.blogspot.de/2009...-so-sorry.html

if you're on a desktop I'm sure it works fine but on laptops... OSS still doesn't support suspend or jack detection.