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[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm one of the "target audiences" for Lubuntu, mainly that of the
underpowered netbook user.

In my experience, Chromium is faster, until you start having a ton
(read: 4-10) tabs open. At that point, Firefox starts to be better.

Just my two cents.

Cheers,
James Gifford



On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Stefano <eco.stefi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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" ;-)
> --
> Stefano <eco.stefi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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