chromium-browser and disk usage

[Mr Wislr]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 22:10:33 +0100
I have found if you pay close attention to midori, it eventually creeps
up in memory use to that near standard, firefox, chrome, etc etc

in other words its really only marginably "lighter" after continued use


UH <uhtlmk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Isn't there Midori too - especially for those who use ppc platform.
> Considering that ff still doesn't have h.264 and mpeg4 support but
> Midori has, i'd look at it as a valid alternative (although Midori has
> some problems to deal with Google Drive), at least on a mac where now
> - after the end of FlashVideoReplacer - html5 seems the only
> reasonable way to have video support in the net.
> 
> 2012/11/1 Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>:
> > Hi Lars,
> >
> > whilst this is a slightly OT regarding Chromium issues, there is
> > still some chatter on using what was xxxterm (now xombrero)[1] As a
> > really low resource browser. Whilst the general consensus seems to
> > be that it is not yet mature enough / has enough features to be
> > considered as a replacement for Chromium I do know of a couple
> > lubuntueers who are very happy with it. If you are finding Chromium
> > to be simply too much of a resource hog for your system, it may
> > just help you.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phill
> > 1. https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1 November 2012 20:33, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What program can I use to gather memory usage data on
> >> chromium-browser.  Just right now about 4/5 of the tabs show the
> >> unhappy face icon of a page which ran out of memory?  chromium
> >> seems only marginally usable as a browser because of this and the
> >> constant swap usage.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> /Lars
> >>
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