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Re: [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

 

In fact Midori is lighweight... but it crash just too often. That's what i
mean by "ready to use"

2011/11/5 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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