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Re: [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

 

On 09/11/11 16:30, b g wrote:
This all sounds like personal preference and subjective arguments to me. After all, users can install whatever browser they desire.

Personally, I wish Lubuntu would boot as fast as it used to.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM, A. Andjelkovic <andjelkovic@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:andjelkovic@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Let's not start a war here... I don't want to be rude, but please
    keep such personal opinions out of this discussion.
    I think we can all agree that both Firefox and Chromium are rich
    in features.
    We are simply trying to find out which browser, out of Firefox and
    Chromium, use the least resources.
    We want to chose the lightest of the two to be our out-of-the-box
    web browser, whatever users prefer to use after that is simply an
    apt-get away.
    Let's not think in terms of "This is what I would prefer" but
    rather "This is what a user on a low spec machine would prefer".

    On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx
    <mailto:jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        On 9 November 2011 06:03, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx
        <mailto:leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>> wrote:

        > In my view Chromium offers still better features than
        firefox. Just look
        > at the HTML5 capabilities it just beats firefox here with in
        my view
        > important things just like HTML5 videoplayback (H264 is
        supported)

        Google is dropping H264 support:
        http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html

        > or the fact that every browser tab in chromium is running as
        a different
        > process in a sandbox which makes a crash of one tab not
        concerning for
        > other tabs.

        Firefox might do that in the future also, but it costs memory to
        sandbox each browser tab. And I believe Chromium cheats: when
        available memory gets too low, tabs begin sharing the same
        process so
        it's a bit harder to know what's really going on.

        > All in all I am in flavor of Chromium as its still faster
        and offers the
        > better features.

        That's a bit subjective as Firefox also offers unique
        features: It's
        possible to run a few hundred tabs in Firefox; the design of
        Chromium's tabbar makes that much more painful in Chromium.
        Firefox
        has a much more powerful addon framework (although Chromium may
        improve this next year). The user has more control over his
        data with
        Firefox Sync than with Google's version.

        While I'm not a Google-hater, I think it's very important for
        the free
        web that Mozilla continues to exist. Since Mozilla is a bit
        more open
        than Chromium and multiple steps more open than Android, I
        think open
        source fans should consider supporting Firefox if the features are
        nearly equal, which in my opinion they are. This is why I hope
        Firefox
        continues to remain the Ubuntu default browser. Since Lubuntu has
        different constraints in choosing default apps, I'll let
        Julien and
        the Lubuntu devs make their own evaluation. Both browsers are
        fully
        supported in Ubuntu (Canonical is looking to hire someone who
        can help
        maintain Chromium).

        Jeremy

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