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[Zoltan Matlak <matlakzoli@xxxxxxxxx>]

Based on browser market share and popularity, other than IE and Safari,
Firefox and Chrome are the winners. So I would suggest to keep one of these
two and do not try to pick an exotic one, which is used by a very limited
number of people.

Firefox is mature and stable, would be my primary option for Lubuntu 10.04.
Chrome is fast and has Google behind it, but still in beta, so this would be
my suggestion in the Lubuntu 10.10 and beyond.

Please do not forget the available plugins and addons for which firefox is a
clear winner, but chromium addons are maturing and soon will be there too.

Thanks
Zoltan

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Many people complained about the choice of Firefox on Lubuntu. It's time
> to discuss it, to see if it's useful to change for another one. I can
> see 3 possibles choices :
>
> == Keep Firefox ==
> + Firefox is well-known
> + Well maintained upstream and on Ubuntu
> + Many features
> - Slow on startup
> - Memory usage
> ? Rendering seems slower
>
> == Switch to Midori ==
> + Small and fast
> + Memory usage
> - Upstream active but with limited developers compared to the 2 others.
> - Features limited
>
> == Switch to Chromium ==
> + Similar to Chrome, which begin to be well-known
> + Good interface for small screen
> + Upstream active, supported by Google
> +- Firefox have still more possibility and features than Chromium
> ? Maybe be maintained by Mobile Team
> ? Private data send ?
>
>
> This is a quick benchmark I made, to have a quick view of performance
> for those 3 browsers.
>
> Startup : time to startup
> Memory 1 : Memory with google.com, wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu and gmail.com
> connected.
> Memory 2 : Same that 1 + 5 ubuntu.com pages
> Memory 3 : Closing all the pages except google.com
>
> .       .       Firefox .        Midori .       Chromium
> Startup         3.4s            1.8s            1.5s
>
> Memory using Xfce task manager
>
> .       .       Firefox .       Midori .        Chromium
> Memory 1        70Mo            33Mo            28Mo
> Memory 2        83Mo            78Mo            33Mo
> Memory 3        58Mo            45Mo            32Mo
>
> Memory using about:memory of Chromium
>
> .       .       Firefox .       Midori .        Chromium
> Memory 1        70Mo            21Mo            18Mo
> Memory 2        91Mo            72Mo            18Mo
> Memory 3        50Mo            38Mo            18Mo
>
>
> == Others choice ==
> * Opera: Closed source.
> * Aurora: I can't see any advantage over Midori, with QT depends.
> * Epiphany: Too much GNOME depends.
>
> For now, I'm more for the Chromium option. Midori is nice, but I don't
> think we will have enough time to test and maintain it correctly.
>
> I'm interesting to have user experience with those browser on low
> ressources computers. If you are running Lucid, you can install them
> from official repository, and play with them :)
>
> Regards,
> Juline Lavergne
>
>
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