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

2011-11-09 Thread James King
What are the chances of having an installer that gives you the choice to install either one? Maybe even add Midori to the mix? It doesn't matter to me either way: both are fast enough on my netbook and each continues to improve. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:52 PM, amjjawad HOOHAA wrote: > Guys, > > W

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

2011-11-09 Thread amjjawad HOOHAA
Guys, With all due respect to EVERYONE, I'm not sure if this debate/discussion/argument is even healthy or not any more? I know we, as Lubuntu Team Members, must discuss between us first of all but we must not forget about one simple fact ... USERS have the louder voice IMHO. I do believe that suc

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

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Rawson
On 09/11/11 16:34, amjjawad HOOHAA wrote: Let's not start a war here... I don't want to be rude, but please keep such personal opinions out of this discussion.I think we can all agree that both Firefox and Chromium are rich in features. We are simply trying to find out which brow

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

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Rawson
On 09/11/11 16:30, b g wrote: This all sounds like personal preference and subjective arguments to me. After all, users can install whatever browser they desire. Personally, I wish Lubuntu would boot as fast as it used to. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM, A. Andjelkovic

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

2011-11-09 Thread amjjawad HOOHAA
Ok, on the PC where I'm planning to do the test, the reading of both LXTask and GNOME System Monitor are equal now :) http://i39.tinypic.com/10ym7me.jpg I don't know what is wrong with my Lubuntu 11.04? it's acting crazy recently. Will try to do the test today and will let you know :) On Wed,

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

2011-11-09 Thread Tim Bernhard
Again, what is the goal of this? If the goal is to find the lighter of the two, will Lubuntu test and choose the lightest with each release? Does Lubuntu want to be constantly changing browsers? Dose Lubuntu care if it's open source? I agree it should be one of the two mentioned. I think Lubun

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

2011-11-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 09.11.2011 15:55, schrieb A. Andjelkovic: > Let's not think in terms of "This is what I would prefer" but rather "This > is what a user on a low spec machine would prefer". Isn't that the same ? I am running Chromium here on a 800 Mhz ARM Cortex A8 with 256 MB RAM. I guess that is a low machine.

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

2011-11-09 Thread A. Andjelkovic
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Gabriel Salles wrote: > > Should we consider Epiphany too or it is not stable enough yet? > Gabriel Salles > Quoting Julien: "We should only consider Chromium or Firefox, because they have a strong upstream and are well maintained. Browser is a very important part

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

2011-11-09 Thread amjjawad HOOHAA
> > Let's not start a war here... I don't want to be rude, but please keep > such personal opinions out of this discussion.I think we can all agree that > both Firefox and Chromium are rich in features. > We are simply trying to find out which browser, out of Firefox and > Chromium, use the least r

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

2011-11-09 Thread b g
This all sounds like personal preference and subjective arguments to me. After all, users can install whatever browser they desire. Personally, I wish Lubuntu would boot as fast as it used to. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM, A. Andjelkovic wrote: > Let's not start a war here... I don't want to

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

2011-11-09 Thread Gabriel Salles
Should we consider Epiphany too or it is not stable enough yet? Gabriel Salles 2011/11/9 A. Andjelkovic > Let's not start a war here... I don't want to be rude, but please keep > such personal opinions out of this discussion. > I think we can all agree that both Firefox and Chromium are rich

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

2011-11-09 Thread A. Andjelkovic
Let's not start a war here... I don't want to be rude, but please keep such personal opinions out of this discussion. I think we can all agree that both Firefox and Chromium are rich in features. We are simply trying to find out which browser, out of Firefox and Chromium, use the least resources. W

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

2011-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 9 November 2011 06:03, Leszek Lesner wrote: > In my view Chromium offers still better features than firefox. Just look > at the HTML5 capabilities it just beats firefox here with in my view > important things just like HTML5 videoplayback (H264 is supported) Google is dropping H264 support: h

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

2011-11-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 09.11.2011 10:55, schrieb Chris: > Bonjour Jean-Pierre, > > I don't know if this is correct, but I'm a little concerned for if the >>> machines will support the test? We're talking about Pentium 3 & 4 and 256 >>> to 512 ram. >> It's like Ali said, it's just a script which does some automated act

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

2011-11-09 Thread
On 11/09/2011 01:55 AM, Chris wrote: P.S.: I still need to look into the performance test-suite of Tom's Hardware what that does exactly Not sure about Tom's but I couldn't find any really good solutions for benchmarking (I was sniffing around OpenBenchmarking) browsers outside of silly stuff l

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

2011-11-09 Thread Chris
Bonjour Jean-Pierre, I don't know if this is correct, but I'm a little concerned for if the >> machines will support the test? We're talking about Pentium 3 & 4 and 256 >> to 512 ram. > > It's like Ali said, it's just a script which does some automated actions, like see what the CPU usage and MEM