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[Stefano <eco.stefi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:47:26 +0100
"A. Andjelkovic" <andjelkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wanted to bring up the discussion about replacing Chromium with Firefox
> in 12.04.
> I'm not sure if this was discussed on UDS, but in my opinion, this is worth
> looking into.
> 
> Firefox has reduced it's memory usage dramatically, and I'm currently
> trying out Firefox 7 as a replacement.
> I do not have detailed memory benchmarks (yet!), but I will definitely do
> some benchmarks in the near future.
> However, I'm pretty sure Firefox has better (lower) memory usage when
> having several tabs open (more than 3).
> 
> Other reasons to switch:
> GTK3
> Better desktop integration (Chromium themeing is limited and hard to
> include as default)
> 
> What do you guys think?

+1, i love firefox, chromium is too much for "dummies" ;-)
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Stefano <eco.stefi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>