Firefox or Chrome?

[Quynh Vu Do]

Hi,

My past experience with Flash and Firefox was that it was very necessary to
run Firefox as local applications, i.e. on the client itself.

There was a page dedicated to set up Local Applications That I followed.
But since I'm retired the latest LTSP setup I used was with Ubuntu 10.04
and 12.04.

2015-01-07 1:55 GMT+07:00 Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> So it seems the majority say go with Firefox, while a few bring up some
> good points for Chrome.
>
> I do have both installed on the LTSP server for the school to use, but I
> suppose my question was which should be the default and/or encouraged so as
> to manage the load on the server.
>
> One reason I like Firefox is because I can get global preferences (as
> shown here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/FirefoxOptimize )
> to help manage things.  I haven't seen such options for Chrome, which is
> another vote in that direction.
>
> One detraction from Firefox is that Flash seems to be on its dying breath
> in Firefox, but Chrome has a new implementation called Pepper (or something
> like that) which is actively being supported.  A huge number of educational
> websites still use flash, so I feel that is a big knock against Firefox --
> every time the teachers load a flash-based website I'd see huge spikes in
> server load.
>
> Did you experience something similar or are there other factors I've not
> included?
>
> Thank you
> Joseph
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Wesley Krasko <wesblake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chrome. I stopped using Firefox all the way around because it will
>> continually suck up memory as long as it's open until all memory is gone,
>> and users would leave their browsers open indefinitely in the office
>> environment I use LTSP in. Chrome is not only faster, but does better
>> memory management when left open. I use it exclusively now for everything
>> and can leave it open for MONTHS on my home machine without issue.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good day everyone,
>>>
>>> A very happy new year to you all!
>>>
>>> I'm running LTSP on Ubuntu (Edubuntu 14.04) and from a resources and
>>> user-experience point-of-view, which is a lighter load on the server?
>>> Firefox or Chrome?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Joseph
>>>
>>>
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