Hi Phil, Very interesting. I certainly have used them both recently, and Chrome/Chromium still feel faster than Firefox. This is a subjective opinion of course.
Couldn't we do a user poll first before switching? I'm pretty sure the majority of Lubuntu users would prefer Chromium than Firefox. Regards Ronald On 13 October 2013 10:33, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ronald, > > firefox went on to a diet. when > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603first > arrived, it was "all hands to the pumps". a LOT of testing was > carried out. The most telling comment was > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603/comments/4I've > been in regular contact with Chad (he's even put up my occaisonal > frustrations). I happen to like chromium and will continue to use it along > with firefox (they are both currently running on my system). Should it > happen that chromum becomes less RAM hungry for the low resource machines, > lubuntu will switch back faster than you can blink! We are browser > agnostic, and will ship which ever one that servers the low resource > machines the best. > > I cannot immediately put my hands on the discussions, but they are in our > mailing list archives. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > On 12 October 2013 22:54, Ronald <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Phil, >> >> Really?? I will be really surprised, >> do you have the link to the test result? >> >> Ronald >> >> >> On Sunday, 13 October 2013, Phill Whiteside wrote: >> >>> Hi Ronald, >>> >>> on the tests carried out earlier in the cycle, Firefox was found to out >>> perform chromium on low ram machines. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Phill. >>> >>> >>> On 12 October 2013 00:57, Ronald <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> What's the reason to move to Firefox? Chromium is a much better browser >>>> >>>> >>>> On Saturday, 12 October 2013, Phill Whiteside wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> whilst in 13.10 we are moving to firefox as the default browser, >>>>> support for chromium continues. To this end, version 30 has hit testing. >>>>> Chad would specifically like it tested on low ram machines to check it is >>>>> okay on low ram machines. The chase for >>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603 >>>>> continues! >>>>> >>>>> You can grab v30 from >>>>> https://launchpad.net/~cmiller/+archive/chromium-browser-stable-daily if >>>>> you're not familiar with adding PPA's, head over to >>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PPA_Testing >>>>> >>>>> That PPA can be trusted :) >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Phill. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >>> >> > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw >
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