How's the Cheetah browser?

1. installation package becomes larger

The installation process and the old version is not very different, even the tone has not changed, this and a lot of opponents would like a small upgrade on the interface three new has a significant difference. Of course, this is not a good who bad problem, the new interface more innovative, the old interface easy to use, the difference between the two just this. In contrast, the installation package is more attractive to the volume of attention, the new version of MB, the old version (4.7.54) MB, it is obvious that 5.0 beta is quietly "fat", I hope this increase in 10MB can bring us surprise it.

Figure 01 The installation interface is completely unchanged, and you can't even tell if it's 4. X or 5.X

Figure 02 compared to the previous 4.7, the new volume increased by about 10MB

　　2. Small changes in the interface

The new version of the interface has changed, of course, just a little bit. The whole design was still in the dark style, but the icons were more akin to flat designs. In contrast, another change may be more worthy of our attention, that is the address bar to the right of the newly added two-dimensional code icon, click on the current page can be imported into the mobile phone watch. Prior to this, cheetah users would only install related extensions if they wanted to implement similar functions.

Figure 03 new version finally native support current page two-dimensional code access

What needs to be explained is that the page after scanning does not directly open, but prompted the need to install Cheetah Mobile version. Of course...... This is just a hint, if you click on "Continue access" can be normal to open. But compared to the direct opening of other browsers, the cheetah design does seem a little stingy.

Fig. 04 After scanning code hints suggest Cheetah Mobile version open, of course ... Just a suggestion, click on continue access (figure is UC browser 9.7)

　　3.3D Rubik's Cube

From the actual experience, the new version of Cheetah 5.0 did not have a contribution in the start-up speed, although double-click the icon to open the program is still very short time, but at this time the Dial-up page has not been started, the favorites can not open, you are not polite to say "pseudo start" three words to describe perhaps more appropriate. Especially in some lower-profile computers, this problem is still quite prominent.

By the way, the new version already defaults to use the Rubik's Cube as a preferred dial-up page. At the same time the transition effect is more smooth than the previous version (open GPU acceleration), the overall feeling has been more useful. But still that question, because does not support the custom logo, when the user adds the website to be in favor of the minority, the browser will only pass a leopard logo to replace, the quantity is too many regardless of the visual sense or the degree of identification is not ideal.

Figure 05 The new version of the default use of 3D Rubik's Cube as a dial-up page, fluency is good, but still do not support the manual modification logo

　　4. Add Cheetah WiFi

The new Cheetah 5.0 still has built-in "entertainment" features such as play and games, but the development team has already handled it quite well. If you feel an eyesore, you can hide it by the "Show/Hide Icon" underneath the extension bar, or delete the feature you don't like.

Figure 06 still built-in "play", "game" and other entertainment functions, but allow the hidden and uninstall, in fact ... It's not bad anymore ~

In addition to the new version under the expansion bar and added a "free wireless network", that is, "cheetah free Wi-Fi", used to your computer virtual as a wireless hotspot for other devices to share the Internet. It should be explained that this feature, although placed in the browser, but has not been opened, only after the user manually click to start downloading the installation. And its function is also relatively rich, in addition to the basic sharing of the Internet, but also increased the mobile phone remote shutdown, mobile phone remote Guan, two-way one-key transfer map and other special functions (need mobile phone installation app), is a practical pie, the need of netizens can try.

Figure 07 with "Wifi 3.0", click on the automatic download, the function is very powerful

　　5. Performance Test

In addition to functional changes, another major change in Cheetah 5.0 is the use of a new chrome 34 kernel, which is popular to open pages faster, more smooth browsing. So how fast is it? We still run through a group of locutionary.

Figure 08 Sunspider JavaScript run points to evaluate JavaScript parsing capability, new version faster (unit: the smaller the MS value the better)

Figure HTML5 Compatibility run points, see the new version has significantly improved (unit: The greater the number of points the better)

Fig. 10 Fishie test for GPU acceleration (1000 fish)

PS: Newer version of the flow has been significantly improved, where the old version of 1000 fish full screen about 16FPS, and the new version in the 26FPS or so (unit: FPS value larger the better)

Figure 11 focuses on the comprehensive evaluation of the robohornet test, the newer version has about 23 of the promotion (unit: the smaller the number of seconds the better)

This is our specially produced a link, built a number of home page, by adding the average load per site time, to determine the actual web page loading speed (in seconds, the smaller the better)

Figure 12 Test the actual web page load speed of the browser (in seconds, as small as possible)

Figure 13 Load Speed test results: The new version in the overall loading time faster than the old version

　　6. Memory optimization effect is obvious

In addition to performance improvements, the new version is also more advanced in memory footprint than in older versions. Which opened 8 groups of Web sites, the new version of the total memory consumption of about 513 MB, then the old version is 625 MB, although the results are good, but there is no official introduction of the magic, this ... Is the test method of small series wrong? Or is there any other "catch"? You have to ask all the netizens to test themselves.

PS: This group of data is the Web page completely open after the 1 minutes of stagnation to read the value, excluding unexpected factors.

Test results: The new version of memory consumption than the 4.7 version of the savings, but far from the official introduction of the magic, is the small part of the test method is not correct? Or do you have any other secrets?

Figure 14 The new version of memory footprint is less than 4.7, but far from the official introduction of the magic.

Figure 15 This is the new option panel, "Intelligent optimized memory footprint" is the newly added content

　　Written in the last

Of course, since the beta version, there will certainly be a lot of unexpected bugs, such as small series found in the GPU hardware to accelerate, before the "Save the page to the picture" can not be used, the specific phenomenon is to intercept a black screen, no content. At the same time crashes, cotton is more frequent than the old version, occasionally affect the normal browsing.

However, if you exclude these bugs, simply from browser performance, 5.0 version still has a lot of merit, especially memory footprint, although the small series did not personally feel the official claim to optimize the "magic effect" of 90%, but for a multiple-label browser, It is always commendable to place your gaze on memory optimization. In short, compared with the previous "Shiquan" version, the new Cheetah 5.0 can return to the basic line of performance, has been very commendable!

Figure 16 Although it has just been released, the 5.0 edition has been updated