Dave Morley wrote: > 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? > > Or midori.
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