Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread
I like the idea of a script.. at least for most of it. The one bugaboo will be doing start up and shut down tests. Maybe we could use an appropriate signal? I'm not sure which one would be used to cleanly shutdown the program, but, for example, with SIGTERM we could do: kill -n 15 $(pidof fire

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 6 November 2011 14:45, Chris wrote: > Chromium-browser automatically checks for the latest version AFAIK. And the > script should be able to retrieve the latest version from the respective > vendor sites. If the installed version (also callable from the system) > doesn't match the latest versio

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread PCMan
If you can create such a script, it helps a lot in other areas, too. We can use it to do benchmark for other components of lubuntu as well. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Chris wrote: > I was suggesting some kind of script, which could write the results in a > "log" file. That way all the resu

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Chris
Chromium-browser automatically checks for the latest version AFAIK. And the script should be able to retrieve the latest version from the respective vendor sites. If the installed version (also callable from the system) doesn't match the latest version, then the test will fail. With metta, Chris

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Yorvyk
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:02:45 -0500 Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Make sure you are doing your tests with a clean browser profile. An > easy, safe way to do that is to create a new user and login to the new > account. > Also need to ensure everybody is using the same, and latest, versions of the browsers

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Yorvyk
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 20:51:02 -0400 Julien Lavergne wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not very fan of a change unless we have a strong consensus for another > browser. But, this is my opinion : > - We should only consider Chromium or Firefox, because they have a strong > upstream and are well maintained. Bro

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Make sure you are doing your tests with a clean browser profile. An easy, safe way to do that is to create a new user and login to the new account. Jeremy ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launc

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Chris
I was suggesting some kind of script, which could write the results in a "log" file. That way all the results will be the same on all machines and are objective. I will need some help in creating that script probably, but I'll be on IRC tomorrow and see what I can get bunged together. With metta,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Ali Linx
Just a question. Are we going to use some kind of tools/apps to do these tests? or we'll go for the manual approach? I mean just open LXTask and take the figures from there? I'm going to do a fresh install for Lubuntu 11.10, run apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade, install Firefox and make sur

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Gabriel Salles
*"Maybe chromium has some hidden resource usage not covered by the test?"* To avoid this kind of doubt, I think it is better to make a new boot, open the Chromium Browser (with tabs and common pages), and see how much of CPU and RAM the *whole system* are using. Then you reboot and do the same th

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Yorvyk
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:29:10 -0300 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote: > Proposal for browser benchmarks: > > - First of all, run the browsers without any add-on > - Take starts time > - Watch lxtask for memory usage & cpu. Inside Chromium about:memory shows > the memory used by each browser running

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Proposal for browser benchmarks: - First of all, run the browsers without any add-on - Take starts time - Watch lxtask for memory usage & cpu. Inside Chromium about:memory shows the memory used by each browser running too. Htop? - Watch the general behaviour - Sites: youtube, gmail, google, facebo

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le 11/06/2011 05:52 PM, PCMan a écrit : > Since midori, epiphany, and chromium all uses webkit, what makes so > many differences? As far as I know, Chromium uses a patched webkit, that's probably why the tests could be different between midori, epiphany and chromium. Regards, Julien Lavergne

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread PCMan
Thank you for your test. I, however, have some doubt about the chromium test. Since midori, epiphany, and chromium all uses webkit, what makes so many differences? The most memory-demanding parts should be webkit and the graphics. I don't believe that the remaining parts can cause so much impact. A

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread A. Andjelkovic
Just finished some testing using: Chromium 15.0.874.102 Firefox 7.0.1 No extensions, no tab history (tabs are "clean"). 1 tab (logged into gmail) chromium-browser: 50.1 + 24.7 + 9.1 = 83.9 MB firefox: 97.2 MB 2 tabs (logged into gmail, ubuntuforums.org) chromium-browser: 54.5 + 24.7 + 9.1 = 88.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Julien Lavergne
Thanks for the tests. You can also use about:memory of Chromium, to have a second source of information. Regards, Julien Lavergne Le 11/06/2011 04:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit : > Just to get an idea, i've installed and run on my new laptop Epiphany > 3.0.4, Firefox 7.0.1, Chromium 14

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le 11/06/2011 08:45 AM, Jonathan Marsden a écrit : > If (and this is a big IF) these results are similar to those in Lubuntu > on low-RAM machines, it might indeed be time to rethink use of Chromium. Yes, it missed 2 points : - memory management on Linux (we can't rely on Windows one to do proper c

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Ali Linx
> > Oh please don't, I imagine the mess and trolls for this tread :) > And also, it's not only a question of popularity, we need to consider > other aspects. > Yes, I realized it could be a bad idea for now. Let's first decide, we as a team then we can go public. So, I just sent to Jean-Pierre. A

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Ali Linx
> > @ALI, is there a specific way that you're gonna make your "benchmarks"? > I'm saying it so we can compare our results :) Whatever in your mind, let me know and I'll be more than glad to do it :) Don't have specific ideas at the time being. I'm willing to open many tabs and monitor that. Don'

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le 11/06/2011 09:24 AM, Ali Linx a écrit : > > Also, I think it's important to ask the users to vote for that, not > only us. I can start a thread on Ubuntu Forum but I need to hear first > from Julien and others about that. Oh please don't, I imagine the mess and trolls for this tread :) And also,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Just to get an idea, i've installed and run on my new laptop Epiphany 3.0.4, Firefox 7.0.1, Chromium 14.0.835, Midori 0.4.0. Here's what i get with two facebook tabs + gmail: Firefox: 268,7MB ram | 0% CPU Epiphany: 261,3MB ram | 0-1% CPU Midori: 225,6MB ram | 0-2% CPU Chromium: 69+19,8+6,1MB ram

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread ohiomoto
I also agree.   Both browsers are widely accepted work equally well for general use.   I think the question should be a) do we want to pick one and stick with it for the sake of consistency or b) always choose the lightest of the two?Tim-- Sent from my HP TouchPadOn Nov 5, 2011 9:07 PM, Julien Lave

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Ali Linx
> > I'm not very fan of a change unless we have a strong consensus for another > browser. But, this is my opinion : > - We should only consider Chromium or Firefox, because they have a strong > upstream and are well maintained. Browser is a very important part of a > system, and we really don't hav

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Ali Linx
I have a P4 PC with 512MB RAM but I can drop that to 256. I'm ready for such tests ;) Also, I think it's important to ask the users to vote for that, not only us. I can start a thread on Ubuntu Forum but I need to hear first from Julien and others about that. On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jon

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Chris
Are those benchmarks from Tom's Hardware documented at all? Maybe we could "rebuild" those benchmarks for linux? When they are run on a low-spec machine then the results should be the same on other machines. User tests should be done to verify the results aren't just laboratory results. I might be

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-06 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 11/05/2011 05:51 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > So far, I don't see advantages to switch to Firefox. Of course, if > the benchmarks show a real difference, I may reconsider my opinion. Tom's Hardware regularly benchmarks browsers, but sadly only under Windows and OS X. The relevant page (Memor