Julien, One of my laptops is a Celeron M 1200 Mhz, 512 Ram from 2002. Kind of old machine (but still good, of course) to use Lubuntu.
Memory report after 1h hour of navigation on 2 to 3 tabs (no facebook though, because it's a browser killer to me): Memory Browser Private Proportional Chromium 155,276k 93,976k Firefox 99,604k 30,128k Usage on the report above: youtube, email, google search, forum reading. My vote: Firefox. I'm using FF 21 vs Chromium 25.0.1364.160 on this laptop. Anyway I stick with Phill's test once I believe it's more empiric/scientific. Just a note: Firefox tends to be slow to open, but after it's open, it's faster than Chromium to me. Not very important if we stick to the most important side: it's the surfing/browsing speed that counts more than the opening/initial loading. Question: why Midori is not a candidate? Cheers, Iberê 2013/5/31 Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> > Hi Boss, > > we did actually do some tests via > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603 > > It was pretty clear that the slimmed down Ffox was better for low resource > machines (as evident in post > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603/comments/4) > > In all my dealings with Chad from Canonical who looks after Chromium, I > have have never had any cause to doubt his honesty and openness. That he > suggests staying with Ffox for ubuntu is a massive statement. IMHO, Lubuntu > would be wrong to not follow his advice. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > On 31 May 2013 22:55, Yorvyk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 31/05/13 21:56, Yorvyk wrote: >> >>> On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote: >>> >>>> On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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). >>>>> >>>> >>>> I prefer Firefox in general (maybe because I am more used to it) but I >>>> use both. Sometimes it is convenient to run both at the same time. >>>> >>>> But since I'm interested in the support of old and 'small' hardware, I >>>> have also tried Firefox and Chromium-Browser with very limited RAM (less >>>> than 1 GB). Then it is very obvious that Firefox is better. I have the >>>> same experience as Lars Noodén with the "it's dead, Jim" message in >>>> Chromium-Browser. >>>> >>>> System - 450 Mhz PIII - 640 MiB RAM - Matrox MGA G200 VGA Controller >>> >>> Neither Firefox or Chromium will play Flash. Chromium invariably >>> displays the 'It's dead Jim@ message, FF just displays a blank space but >>> at least it leaves the rest of the page intact. >>> >>> Memory usage when both idle with no extensions using about:memory in >>> Chromium. >>> >>> Firefox - 39804k >>> >>> Chromium - 81164k >>> >>> >>> Should have mentioned the memory readings took place using Saucy with >> Firefox 22 and Chromium 25. >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Steve >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> -- >> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >> > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > -- abs e bons estudos! iberê
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