Firefox all the way - Chromium barely runs on older hardware, doesn't run on powerpc, and is a huge memory hog. Folks that are wanting Chromium are more than capable of installing it; it's in the repos.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjja...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com>wrote: > >> And for the 'old machines'? Last thread we were talking about was making >> lubuntu-core more easily available. On these low RAM machines, which as >> Chad has stated are limited to v25 Chomium unless he can get v27 to build >> in 32 bit, I again fail to see the advantage? F/fox as with slimmed down >> memory usage is good to go now. The clock is ticking and decisions have to >> be taken fairly soon. Maybe this is a subject best discussed for 14.04 LTS. >> >> Regards, >> >> Phill. >> >> >> > I agree with Phill. Why every decision must take forever? it is very > simple and IMHO, it needs few days to decide not many releases :( > We have started the Firefox vs Chromium discussion long time ago. Now, > Firefox has proved itself to be much better than Chromium in many cases. > Firefox is not as heavy as it used to be and performance wise, better, at > least in my case and others confirmed too. > > Can we just take a vote? > Just a vote, without going endless debate? > > I strongly suggest, to start, yet again, a new thread with one statement: > Please vote or your best server for 13.10 (Firefox or Chromium). > > As easy as this. > > IMHO, endless debate is useless, with all due respect to everyone :) > > Also, I'm one of those who is LOST, totally lost. How many threads so far > about this? I lost counting :/ > > Thanks! > > -- > *Best Regards,* > *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* > *Start > Ubuntu<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu> > * > > *Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - **Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with > 489MB RAM* > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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