I've been a pretty vocal fan of Android for years, but I was oddly in limited company when panning Chrome for Android when it came out. It seemed that every Android advocate, and even its worst critics, were falling over each other to declare it a new panacea.
It was a marked setback from the already weak native browser (I use Android phones, tablets, and iPads. There is no doubt that later versions of iOS shot it far in the lead for browsing). It seems to be a universally single-threaded browser. I'm not talking about the native limits of JavaScript...but rather every part of the browser. If a page has an HTML5 video...there's a several second pause of the entire browser while it considers existence. Layout, loading things...everything seems to stall the main thread. It is abysmal.
It was a marked setback from the already weak native browser (I use Android phones, tablets, and iPads. There is no doubt that later versions of iOS shot it far in the lead for browsing). It seems to be a universally single-threaded browser. I'm not talking about the native limits of JavaScript...but rather every part of the browser. If a page has an HTML5 video...there's a several second pause of the entire browser while it considers existence. Layout, loading things...everything seems to stall the main thread. It is abysmal.