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[Joe <xubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Up until earlier this week I would have voted for Firefox, because it
just works although it is bloated.

I've recently tried Chromium, Chrome, Opera and Kazekhaze - none work as
you would expect all the time. This week however I tried Midori which
just works and is incredibly fast. I recon a good test is to click a
link in an email and see how long it takes for the browser to open and
the page to be displayed. Firefox is so slow but Midori is also instant.
Memory and CPU usage looks to be about half of firefox. The only thing I
had to do to make Midori pass tests by my bank was to tell it to
identify itself as Safari.

On the downside it doesn't have all the extension or save passwords but
it seems to fit with the aims of Lubuntu. If you haven't tried it you
should before deciding. I added the Midori ppa repos to get the latest
beta version which seems very stable and has slightly more features.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/midori-a-lightweight-web-browser.html

Joe

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 15:49 +0700, Mario Behling wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the discussion is coming up from time to time. This is a good
> overview. My additions to Julien inline
> 
> > == Keep Firefox ==
> > + Firefox is well-known
> > + Well maintained upstream and on Ubuntu
> > + Many features
>   + supported in many languages
> > - 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
> - problems with rendering some web pages
> 
> >
> > == 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 ?
> 
> Privacy is a real issue. There is an alternative see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
> David Sugar mentioned one time, that the Chromium maintainers might
> look into it. Now, that Canonical is changing to Yahoo as its standard
> search engine is the team also looking into this aspect? Google would
> still get information about what people search with Yahoo or Bing even
> when Google is not the standard search engine.
> 
> - Mario
> 
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