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[Charlie Ford <charlesford42@xxxxxxxxx>]

Firefox all the way - Chromium barely runs on older hardware, doesn't run
on powerpc, and is a huge memory hog. Folks that are wanting Chromium are
more than capable of installing it; it's in the repos.


On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> And for the 'old machines'? Last thread we were talking about was making
>> lubuntu-core more easily available. On these low RAM machines, which as
>> Chad has stated are limited to v25 Chomium unless he can get v27 to build
>> in 32 bit, I again fail to see the advantage? F/fox as with slimmed down
>> memory usage is good to go now. The clock is ticking and decisions have to
>> be taken fairly soon. Maybe this is a subject best discussed for 14.04 LTS.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>>
> I agree with Phill. Why every decision must take forever? it is very
> simple and IMHO, it needs few days to decide not many releases :(
> We have started the Firefox vs Chromium discussion long time ago. Now,
> Firefox has proved itself to be much better than Chromium in many cases.
> Firefox is not as heavy as it used to be and performance wise, better, at
> least in my case and others confirmed too.
>
> Can we just take a vote?
> Just a vote, without going endless debate?
>
> I strongly suggest, to start, yet again, a new thread with one statement:
> Please vote or your best server for 13.10 (Firefox or Chromium).
>
> As easy as this.
>
> IMHO, endless debate is useless, with all due respect to everyone :)
>
> Also, I'm one of those who is LOST, totally lost. How many threads so far
> about this? I lost counting :/
>
> Thanks!
>
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