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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