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Re: Browsers comparison on slow machine

 

Chromium will use the global proxy settings. Hmm... we need a tool for this purpose :)

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:35:27 +0300
Yaroslav <darkwater@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> I'm testing fresh installation of Lubuntu from last ISO. I found, that Chromium does not support any proxy settings. This is serious failure for default OS browser, as for me.
> 
> ---------
> Yaroslav.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lubuntu <lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:54:25 -0000
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Browsers comparison on slow machine
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:51:21 -0000, Mikhail Maksimov <mcwillin@xxxxxxxxx>  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm out of the game for some time, sorry.
> > >
> > > My Lubuntu installation crashed and does not start anymore, and I
> > > don't have several hours to do a complete reinstall, it is painfully
> > > slow on such machine. I hope, however, I'll be able to do some testing
> > > on a virtual machine next week. It will definitely be faster than
> > > ages-old Celeron, so no "responsiveness" observations possible, but I
> > > still can see the memory usage numbers.
> > >
> > > And yes, the memory usage numbers are reported while hovering over the
> > > memory bar in taskmanager.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Mikhail
> > >
> > No problem.
> > My test rig has been playing up, turned out to be the HDD ribbon cable.  
> > Over 4 hours to install with only 128MB RAM, though I'm amazed the live CD  
> > runs at all.
> > Going to wait for the next ISO before doing any more testing.  I'm going  
> > through my collection of old parts to see if I can't get a few machines up  
> > and running for comparisons.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Steve
> > 
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