On 4/4/13 6:22 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > Hi Barry and thanks a lot for your email. > > Indeed, with 256MB of RAM, Chrome/Chromium will crash. Chromium actually > crashes on my Test Laptop with 512MB of RAM. Firefox on low RAM machines as > far as I noticed is much stable. > > There is a Non-Official Apps for Lubuntu for testing, one of them is a > browser. If that browser prove itself as a better replacement for Chromium, > I guess we might see that on the next releases but of course, only if our > tests will show it is good and we vote for it. > > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/non-official-apps?field.series_filter=raring > > What is the CPU for that machine? > I have tested that on two, one is Due Core 1.86GHz with 512MB RAM and the > other is P4 3.0GHz with less than 512MB RAM and on both machines, Chromium > crashed either on facebook or Gmail with another tab opened (total 2 tabs) > and sometimes even one tab. > > Thanks :)
I stopped trying to use Chromium on my 1GB RAM machine. Between it and the other applications 1.5 GB was getting used, meaning too much swapping going on. As far as I can tell, Firefox has lower memory requirements. Regards, /Lars -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
