@Jordan I was being excited about QupZilla, not Chromium. I think the thing to offer the choice of browsers would be the ubiquity installer. I have never looked at what makes up ubiquity, so I have no idea. I am not even sure what language it was written in.
I don't know what the dev options are for QupZilla, but it might end up being a nice browser for day-to-day browsing. I suppose the reality of switching to it at a later date will be if it is Actively developed, and has a strong developer community behind (i.e. wont disappear overnight), though WebKit itself has a strong community of developers, so it should be fair safe, and offer a good browsing experience. Also it would need to be in the official repositories to actually be included, and would need a lot of testing on a lot of machines. I was really just excited to have a Qt browser that is fast and has a lot of features to use on old computers when LXQt comes out one day in the future (and is fully usable). @sd you should check out QupZilla, it offers quite a bit. (Alt+Scroll Wheel for horizontal scrolling). Not sure if all the dev options available would suit you, but it allows for WebKit plugins. I just started trying it out, and am pretty impressed with it so far. It is a much nicer alternative to Opera, as Opera is closed source/proprietary. On 12/14/2013 10:42 PM, Jordan wrote: > I would hesitate to make Chromium "standard" until the browser is > demonstrated to be compatible with most popular Chrome plug-ins > (especially security plugins.) Sure, Chromium might be a good > alternative for lower spec machines. Still many lubuntu users will > end up removing the Chromium package pronto, as I did with older > lubuntu releases. Maybe it'd be better to offer users a choice > between Chromium and FF. Can this be done through the software > center? I don't use the software center, so I don't know its > possibilities. > > Jordan > > > On 12/14/2013 11:29 PM, Israel wrote: >> This is simply amazing. I think this would make an excellent >> default... but of course I just downloaded it, and configured it. I >> will have to do some testing to see what all it can handle, and how >> fast everything is. With LXQt coming soon... this would be an >> excellent addition to the lineup... though I just started using it 5 >> min ago... so this enthusiasm may be premature. >> >> On 12/14/2013 08:12 PM, David Yentzen wrote: >>> I have never used Midori with Lubuntu so cannot comment on it. FF >>> works well on my Lubuntu machine but I have been using QupZilla >>> lately. It is very fast, opening in less than 2 secs and page >>> response it also very fast. It is lightweight with minimal plug-ins >>> but does all that I need, you may wish to try it out. There is a >>> ppa for it here: >>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~nowrep/+archive/qupzilla >>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Enowrep/+archive/qupzilla> >>> >>> Regards >>> David >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Israel <israeld...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> ubuntu-bug chromium >>> >>> should report it just fine. >>> I have found Opera runs very fast on my oldest computers, though >>> it is >>> proprietary. If you have a REALLY slow computer it makes using the >>> internet much more plesant, though I would rather it be free and >>> open. >>> I did a lot of testing of all the web browsers on that computer, >>> before >>> I gave it to someone. I tried Chromium, Firefox, Opera, Dooble, >>> Midori, >>> Seamonkey (well most of the browsers in the repos, except Konq) >>> and all >>> of them took +5 Seconds to open. Firefox took about 1 second >>> less than >>> Chromium, and Opera took about 2 seconds, pages also responded much >>> quicker, than in the others, and if I had a bunch of stuff going it >>> wouldn't bog down completely. Midori was also pretty fast (for >>> navigating), but loaded the same as the others. >>> If your computer is REALLY slow I'd suggest tryng it out for a more >>> pleasant experience. If not, enjoy Firefox. >>> >>> On 12/14/2013 03:06 AM, sd wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > since last update of chromium-browser on Lubuntu 13.10 the CPU >>> usage >>> > is very high with any open page: >>> > >>> > Version 31.0.1650.63 Ubuntu 13.10 >>> > (31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~20131204.1) >>> > >>> > Task Manager (lxde) >>> > >>> > Command User CPU% RSS VM-Size >>> > chro root 27% 222.0 MB 1.3 GB >>> > chromium-browser user 11% 72.1MB 16777216.0 TB >>> > >>> > Screenshot >>> > >>> > http://postimg.org/image/i8hiqwuc5/ >>> > http://s18.postimg.org/i8hiqwuc5/chromium.jpg >>> > >>> > It just goes higher and higher if you open any more pages, >>> until the >>> > system does not respond anymore. >>> > >>> > I know chromium-browser is not the default browser anymore, >>> and I am >>> > not sure where to report this issue. Firefox is running ok, so >>> I am >>> > switching to it atm. >>> > >>> > Regards, p >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Lubuntu-users mailing list >>> Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >>> <mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> > > > -- Regards
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