Hi, Firefox has its good points. But packed with lots of plugins it also sucks at memory usage. So Chromium +1 , because: + FAST (I mean really fast, the time I start firefox the same time, I open almost 10 Tabs within chromium) + Stable (Thirdparty plugins, like JAVA and Flash don't bring the browser down if(when) crashing) + Lots of extensions (not comparable to firefox but far better than midori or arora) + You don't need to make google the default search engine, to call this browser chromium (see firefox: can only be called firefox, if search engine is google and we don't touch the default profile, thats insane) + html5 youtube+veoh (x264) is working quite well with codecs installed - Chromium misses SSL encryption in the linux version still, so https sites without certificate - html5 ogg theora playback seems to be broken since quite a few builds
So we need to make a choice: Firefox (slow but low memory usage) OR Chromium (blazing fast and a little more memory usage) ? I am definitely for Chromium Regards, Leszek Lesner On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:23:47 +0100 Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Many people complained about the choice of Firefox on Lubuntu. It's time > to discuss it, to see if it's useful to change for another one. I can > see 3 possibles choices : > > == Keep Firefox == > + Firefox is well-known > + Well maintained upstream and on Ubuntu > + Many features > - Slow on startup > - Memory usage > ? Rendering seems slower > > == Switch to Midori == > + Small and fast > + Memory usage > - Upstream active but with limited developers compared to the 2 others. > - Features limited > > == Switch to Chromium == > + Similar to Chrome, which begin to be well-known > + Good interface for small screen > + Upstream active, supported by Google > +- Firefox have still more possibility and features than Chromium > ? Maybe be maintained by Mobile Team > ? Private data send ? > > > This is a quick benchmark I made, to have a quick view of performance > for those 3 browsers. > > Startup : time to startup > Memory 1 : Memory with google.com, wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu and gmail.com > connected. > Memory 2 : Same that 1 + 5 ubuntu.com pages > Memory 3 : Closing all the pages except google.com > > . . Firefox . Midori . Chromium > Startup 3.4s 1.8s 1.5s > > Memory using Xfce task manager > > . . Firefox . Midori . Chromium > Memory 1 70Mo 33Mo 28Mo > Memory 2 83Mo 78Mo 33Mo > Memory 3 58Mo 45Mo 32Mo > > Memory using about:memory of Chromium > > . . Firefox . Midori . Chromium > Memory 1 70Mo 21Mo 18Mo > Memory 2 91Mo 72Mo 18Mo > Memory 3 50Mo 38Mo 18Mo > > > == Others choice == > * Opera: Closed source. > * Aurora: I can't see any advantage over Midori, with QT depends. > * Epiphany: Too much GNOME depends. > > For now, I'm more for the Chromium option. Midori is nice, but I don't > think we will have enough time to test and maintain it correctly. > > I'm interesting to have user experience with those browser on low > ressources computers. If you are running Lucid, you can install them > from official repository, and play with them :) > > Regards, > Juline Lavergne > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
