Lubuntu System Requirement

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi Lars!

Do you mean Chrome (proprietary) or Chromium-browser or Chromium
(another program)? My experience is that Lubuntu 12.04 works well with
the default Chromium-browser and 1 GB RAM. Now I have 1.25 GB. But I
like Firefox better (probably because I'm more used to it).

We may have different habits; I have very few tabs open at the same time.

Nio

On 2013-04-04 17:27, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 4/4/13 6:22 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>> Hi Barry and thanks a lot for your email.
>>
>> Indeed, with 256MB of RAM, Chrome/Chromium will crash. Chromium actually
>> crashes on my Test Laptop with 512MB of RAM. Firefox on low RAM machines as
>> far as I noticed is much stable.
>>
>> There is a Non-Official Apps for Lubuntu for testing, one of them is a
>> browser. If that browser prove itself as a better replacement for Chromium,
>> I guess we might see that on the next releases but of course, only if our
>> tests will show it is good and we vote for it.
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/non-official-apps?field.series_filter=raring
>>
>> What is the CPU for that machine?
>> I have tested that on two, one is Due Core 1.86GHz with 512MB RAM and the
>> other is P4 3.0GHz with less than 512MB RAM and on both machines, Chromium
>> crashed either on facebook or Gmail with another tab opened (total 2 tabs)
>> and sometimes even one tab.
>>
>> Thanks :)
> 
> I stopped trying to use Chromium on my 1GB RAM machine.  Between it and
> the other applications 1.5 GB was getting used, meaning too much
> swapping going on.  As far as I can tell, Firefox has lower memory
> requirements.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 
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