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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