On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 20:51:02 -0400 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. > Another thing to consider, is this vacancy at Canonical for a WebKit/Chromium Software Engineer. https://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CANONICAL&cws=1&rid=376 -- Yorvyk _______________________________________________ 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
