> > I'm not very fan of a change unless we have a strong consensus for another > browser. But, this is my opinion : > - We should only consider Chromium or Firefox, because they have a strong > upstream and are well maintained. Browser is a very important part of a > system, and we really don't have time to do maintenance on it. Adopting > Midori for example, means we have to do the maintenance on Ubuntu (triage > bugs, testing, maybe some packaging ...). > - Benchmark are needed, because just saying it's light, doesn't mean it's > always light. Also, the memory usage for Chromium is special, because it > shares memory (there is an article from a dev of Chromium somewhere in the > Web which explain it). > - Finally, it needs to be light on old hardware. Remember, it's the main > target for Lubuntu. So far, Chromium seems better on this type of machine. > > So far, I don't see advantages to switch to Firefox. Of course, if the > benchmarks show a real difference, I may reconsider my opinion. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne >
I DO AGREE with each and every word, period :) On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not very fan of a change unless we have a strong consensus for another > browser. But, this is my opinion : > - We should only consider Chromium or Firefox, because they have a strong > upstream and are well maintained. Browser is a very important part of a > system, and we really don't have time to do maintenance on it. Adopting > Midori for example, means we have to do the maintenance on Ubuntu (triage > bugs, testing, maybe some packaging ...). > - Benchmark are needed, because just saying it's light, doesn't mean it's > always light. Also, the memory usage for Chromium is special, because it > shares memory (there is an article from a dev of Chromium somewhere in the > Web which explain it). > - Finally, it needs to be light on old hardware. Remember, it's the main > target for Lubuntu. So far, Chromium seems better on this type of machine. > > So far, I don't see advantages to switch to Firefox. Of course, if the > benchmarks show a real difference, I may reconsider my opinion. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:47:26 +0100 > "A. Andjelkovic" <andjelko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I wanted to bring up the discussion about replacing Chromium with Firefox > > in 12.04. > > I'm not sure if this was discussed on UDS, but in my opinion, this is > worth > > looking into. > > > > Firefox has reduced it's memory usage dramatically, and I'm currently > > trying out Firefox 7 as a replacement. > > I do not have detailed memory benchmarks (yet!), but I will definitely do > > some benchmarks in the near future. > > However, I'm pretty sure Firefox has better (lower) memory usage when > > having several tabs open (more than 3). > > > > Other reasons to switch: > > GTK3 > > Better desktop integration (Chromium themeing is limited and hard to > > include as default) > > > > What do you guys think? > > > -- > Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Best Regards, *A.J amjjawad* Lubuntu One Stop Thread (Mega Thread)<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755> My Blog <http://amjjawad.wordpress.com> | My Wiki Page<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>| My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> *~ My Actions Speak Louder Than My Words || ** I walk by faith, not by sight **|| Imagination is more important than Knowledge || **Keep It Simple and Short** ~ *
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