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[Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ali,

It's been mentioned that the new FF7 is lightweight again, that's why it's
been brought up. Personally I don't like FF, so personally I'd vote
Chromium. But if with benchmarks/user tests it's proven that FF is the
better one, than we should consider switching.

With metta, Chris
On Nov 5, 2011 9:41 PM, "Ali Linx" <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Keep Chromium. Users, as always, can install Firefox whenever they want.
>
> Firefox is my no.1 browser but I must have them both. I run both of them
> at the same time (FF and Chromium).
> Let's keep in mind that Chromium is lighter than Firefox. After all,
> Lubuntu is a lightweight distribution so please keep it as it's :)
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:47 PM, 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?
>>
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