On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 10:57 -0600, Jim Campbell wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to suggest to the team that we switch from using Firefox to > Google Chrome as the default web browser for the Lucid release. > > At UDS the Ubuntu Mobile team lead announced that they would be > switching to Google Chrome as the primary browser for the Lucid > release for the Ubuntu Netbook edition. Most all developers at UDS > were using Chrome, and in informal tests Cody and I found it to use > much less writeable memory than Firefox. > > For example, the other night, I started two new browser sessions - one > with Firefox and one with Google's Chrome Beta (not Chromium), and > opened up four tabs: > * Xubuntu.org > * Gmail > * Opennebula.org > * and search.yahoo.com > All browser extensions were removed (not just disabled). Without > doing any additional surfing, Firefox was using 55 mb of writeable > memory*, while Chrome was using only 18 mb of writeable memory. I've > been using Chrome as my default browser since UDS, and notice no > performance issues. It also offers a wide range of browser > extensions, so it would not represent any major regression in terms of > features. Besides, any user who wanted to install Firefox could > easily do so. > > With regards to the packaging, I'm sure we could tie-in with any final > packages that the mobile team wound up using (I'm not sure whether > they intend to use Chrome or Chromium). Chrome will certainly be > receiving support throughout the LTS life cycle. > > I know that Charlie had said that switching browsers for an LTS > wouldn't be a great idea, but given the points I've mentioned above, > it seems one worth considering. What do you think? > > Jim > > * I checked this using the system resources app. As Cody noted to me, > you need to make sure you're looking at writeable memory rather than > the default memory usage that gets displayed.
Jim out of curiosity what does epiphany use in comparison? -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk
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