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Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

 

I would PERSONALLY prefer Chromium (on my machine I use Google Chrome): mainly because it has better Flash support. Even Chromium can use Google's Pepper-Flash, Firefox can not. But on old machines, Flash is often an issue that doesn't work (no hardware acceleration, no SSE2, low ram etc.)

All in all, Firefox would be the better option, for really old machines. I'm not sure if Chromium v26 on 32bit is a problem - it should be possible to crosscompile on a 64bit machine, but I'm not sure if the official repos support crosscompiling.

Short: Firefox +1


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

    On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Phill Whiteside
    <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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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    /Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - //Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz
    with 489MB RAM/


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