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[James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In fact, if we were really looking for a lightweight browser, might I
suggest Midori?[1] It's a Webkit based browser, very lightweight on
CPU/RAM.

Cheers,
James Gifford

[1] https://launchpad.net/midori


On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Hùng Trần <nguyentieuhau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I prefer Chromium, it's good on old machine. Firefox is almost useless on my
> 256MB RAM laptop.
>
> Regards,
> TRẦN Duy Hùng
> http://www.nguyentieuhau.com/
>
>
> On 5 November 2011 22:11, James Gifford <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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