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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Firefox has its good points. But packed with lots of plugins it also sucks at memory usage. 
So Chromium +1 , because:
+ FAST (I mean really fast, the time I start firefox the same time, I open almost 10 Tabs within chromium) 
+ Stable (Thirdparty plugins, like JAVA and Flash don't bring the browser down if(when) crashing)
+ Lots of extensions (not comparable to firefox but far better than midori or arora) 
+ You don't need to make google the default search engine, to call this browser chromium (see firefox: can only be called firefox, if search engine is google and we don't touch the default profile, thats insane) 
+ html5 youtube+veoh (x264) is working quite well with codecs installed
- Chromium misses SSL encryption in the linux version still, so https sites without certificate
- html5 ogg theora playback seems to be broken since quite a few builds

So we need to make a choice:

Firefox (slow but low memory usage) OR
Chromium (blazing fast and a little more memory usage) ? 

I am definitely for Chromium 

Regards,
Leszek Lesner


On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:23:47 +0100
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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