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
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     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
>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     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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