On 05/31/2013 11:53 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
Hi,
In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox,
or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some
testimonies and any feedbacks about the use of the 2 browsers. We need
to evaluate the use of the 2 browsers *on old and not-so-fast
hardware*. It's important because our main targets are this type of
hardware. I know people are using Lubuntu on high specs hardware (like
me), but this is not our main goal to optimize the system for this
type of people.
One tip if you want to compare memory usage between the 2 browsers :
go to the address chrome://memory under chromium. That should not be
the only source of information, but it can help in your evaluation.
So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us
:-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low
spec hardware).
Thanks in advance :-)
Regards,
Julien Lavergne
Julien, and all:
In my experience, Firefox and Chromium appear to work well (equally?) on
my low-spec machines. But on those machines, I don't spend much time
browsing, with multiple tabs open.
I like Firefox because it's easy for me to port my bookmarks from one
machine to another, without any requirement to have a Google account.
Also, Firefox is aware of Java Web-Start (.jnlp) files, and knows Java
Web-Start (icedtea) is what to open them with. Chromium seems to know
nothing about '.jnlp' files, and I have to download them to my machine,
and open them with the file browser.
It seems that Chromium presents a web-page (from being not running
before) faster than Firefox, but I haven't measured this perception.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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