latest chromium-browser using high cpu on any page
Israel
israeldahl at gmail.com
Sun Dec 15 19:51:44 UTC 2013
Oh, right I always turn that off, and I also turn off touchpad clicks...
which, off topic, needs to be much easier to do.
On 12/15/2013 01:12 PM, brendanperrine at gmail.com wrote:
> One problem with offering both is how do we fit it on a cd as not all
> can boot from usb without plop or from dvd.
>
> Also remember that alt+scrollwheel in lubuntu means switch desktop
> unless you want to change openbox configuration.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dale Visser <dale.visser at gmail.com
> <mailto:dale.visser at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Oops... I meant for that to go to the list. Thanks, Israel! :-)
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
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> From: Israel <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>
> Sent: 12/15/2013 11:21 AM
> To: Dale Visser <mailto:dale.visser at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: latest chromium-browser using high cpu on any page
>
> You replied only to me...
> It has integrated addblock features, and you can easily turn off
> JavaScript, and manage what cookies are sent/kept, Click to Play,
> HTML5 data that is kept, etc... It has a lot of nice features
> built in to it. So far I have really enjoyed using it. Importing
> bookmarks is pretty painless as well.
>
> On 12/15/2013 08:48 AM, Dale Visser wrote:
>> I looked at the Qupzilla homepage, and agree it could be an
>> excellent choice for the default browser. I personally use FF for
>> the set of extensions I like (esp. NoScript and LastPass), and
>> even on Chrome/Chromium like a certain set of extensions. For a
>> basic user, though, having a super fast, low-resource, yet
>> functional browser like Qupzilla would make for a great default.
>>
>> Sent from my Windows Phone
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>> From: Israel <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>
>> Sent: 12/15/2013 8:41 AM
>> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> <mailto:lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: latest chromium-browser using high cpu on any page
>>
>> @Jordan
>>
>> I was being excited about QupZilla, not Chromium.
>> I think the thing to offer the choice of browsers would be the
>> ubiquity installer. I have never looked at what makes up
>> ubiquity, so I have no idea. I am not even sure what language it
>> was written in.
>>
>> I don't know what the dev options are for QupZilla, but it might
>> end up being a nice browser for day-to-day browsing. I suppose
>> the reality of switching to it at a later date will be if it is
>> Actively developed, and has a strong developer community behind
>> (i.e. wont disappear overnight), though WebKit itself has a
>> strong community of developers, so it should be fair safe, and
>> offer a good browsing experience. Also it would need to be in
>> the official repositories to actually be included, and would need
>> a lot of testing on a lot of machines.
>>
>> I was really just excited to have a Qt browser that is fast and
>> has a lot of features to use on old computers when LXQt comes out
>> one day in the future (and is fully usable).
>>
>> @sd you should check out QupZilla, it offers quite a bit.
>> (Alt+Scroll Wheel for horizontal scrolling). Not sure if all the
>> dev options available would suit you, but it allows for WebKit
>> plugins. I just started trying it out, and am pretty impressed
>> with it so far. It is a much nicer alternative to Opera, as
>> Opera is closed source/proprietary.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/2013 10:42 PM, Jordan wrote:
>>> I would hesitate to make Chromium "standard" until the browser
>>> is demonstrated to be compatible with most popular Chrome
>>> plug-ins (especially security plugins.) Sure, Chromium might be
>>> a good alternative for lower spec machines. Still many lubuntu
>>> users will end up removing the Chromium package pronto, as I did
>>> with older lubuntu releases. Maybe it'd be better to offer
>>> users a choice between Chromium and FF. Can this be done
>>> through the software center? I don't use the software center,
>>> so I don't know its possibilities.
>>>
>>> Jordan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/14/2013 11:29 PM, Israel wrote:
>>>> This is simply amazing. I think this would make an excellent
>>>> default... but of course I just downloaded it, and configured
>>>> it. I will have to do some testing to see what all it can
>>>> handle, and how fast everything is. With LXQt coming soon...
>>>> this would be an excellent addition to the lineup... though I
>>>> just started using it 5 min ago... so this enthusiasm may be
>>>> premature.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/14/2013 08:12 PM, David Yentzen wrote:
>>>>> I have never used Midori with Lubuntu so cannot comment on it.
>>>>> FF works well on my Lubuntu machine but I have been using
>>>>> QupZilla lately. It is very fast, opening in less than 2 secs
>>>>> and page response it also very fast. It is lightweight with
>>>>> minimal plug-ins but does all that I need, you may wish to try
>>>>> it out. There is a ppa for it here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~nowrep/+archive/qupzilla
>>>>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Enowrep/+archive/qupzilla>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ubuntu-bug chromium
>>>>>
>>>>> should report it just fine.
>>>>> I have found Opera runs very fast on my oldest computers,
>>>>> though it is
>>>>> proprietary. If you have a REALLY slow computer it makes
>>>>> using the
>>>>> internet much more plesant, though I would rather it be
>>>>> free and open.
>>>>> I did a lot of testing of all the web browsers on that
>>>>> computer, before
>>>>> I gave it to someone. I tried Chromium, Firefox, Opera,
>>>>> Dooble, Midori,
>>>>> Seamonkey (well most of the browsers in the repos, except
>>>>> Konq) and all
>>>>> of them took +5 Seconds to open. Firefox took about 1
>>>>> second less than
>>>>> Chromium, and Opera took about 2 seconds, pages also
>>>>> responded much
>>>>> quicker, than in the others, and if I had a bunch of stuff
>>>>> going it
>>>>> wouldn't bog down completely. Midori was also pretty fast
>>>>> (for
>>>>> navigating), but loaded the same as the others.
>>>>> If your computer is REALLY slow I'd suggest tryng it out
>>>>> for a more
>>>>> pleasant experience. If not, enjoy Firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/14/2013 03:06 AM, sd wrote:
>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > since last update of chromium-browser on Lubuntu 13.10
>>>>> the CPU usage
>>>>> > is very high with any open page:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Version 31.0.1650.63 Ubuntu 13.10
>>>>> > (31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~20131204.1)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Task Manager (lxde)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Command User CPU% RSS VM-Size
>>>>> > chro root 27% 222.0 MB 1.3 GB
>>>>> > chromium-browser user 11% 72.1MB 16777216.0 TB
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Screenshot
>>>>> >
>>>>> > http://postimg.org/image/i8hiqwuc5/
>>>>> > http://s18.postimg.org/i8hiqwuc5/chromium.jpg
>>>>> >
>>>>> > It just goes higher and higher if you open any more
>>>>> pages, until the
>>>>> > system does not respond anymore.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I know chromium-browser is not the default browser
>>>>> anymore, and I am
>>>>> > not sure where to report this issue. Firefox is running
>>>>> ok, so I am
>>>>> > switching to it atm.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards, p
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
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