On Thursday, 11 June 2020 08:57:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 03:19:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I don't watch Netflix on my laptop, but I've just tried it in Chromium > > > and it seems to be working fine. I suspect it's either the widevone or > > > proprietary-codecs USE flag. > > > > > I have Chrome installed. I looked at Chromium. It wants even more > > > > stuff on top of what Chrome has pulled in! No way. > > Unless you're using it as your main browser, it's not worth even > considering the extended build times. I do use it as my main browser, so > I use chromium and firefox-bin. > > Incidentally, I found an a reliable way of killing Firefox on this > laptop, run a chromium build in the background :)
TBH the way Chromium has been bloating it would kill pretty much anything alive on a PC. With 16G RAM I had to add swap, reduce number of jobs, move / var/tmp/portage to a disk and various other resource gymnastics to stop users cursing at me for "doing things on their workstation and slowing it down"! I figured since qtwebengine uses the same rendering engine and I spend enough time compiling that package anyway, because KDE won't do without it, I might as well ditch Chromium. I haven't looked back. ;-) Mind you I don't play/watch/pay Netflix anyway.
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