Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

I did ask people (and still do) to not flood that bug report as I was asked
to do some specific tests to see where the 'problem' was. A lot of chat
also goes on outside of bug reports. He's a busy guy who has given fully
open and honest advice as he sees it.

The areas he has issues of are listed at
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-1305-chromium-default-browser

Until and unless they get these issues resolved, I will say we go with
Ffox. As to the question of midori, we can continue that forward, it was
discussed in previous cycles and is in the main repo so it can be discussed
again provided that it is fully compliant with tools such as ocre.
 ** This is from me, personally.... It has been a long term goal of mine
for lubuntu to be able to work with accessibilty issues. Our devs have
enough on their workload to develop lubuntu / lxde etc without having to
worry too much about other things. Ffox works with the standard
accessibilty system, Chromium does not.**

Regards,

Phill.

On 1 June 2013 01:53, Iberê Fernandes <ibere.fernandes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Julien,
>
> One of my laptops is a Celeron M 1200 Mhz, 512 Ram from 2002. Kind of old
> machine (but still good, of course) to use Lubuntu.
>
> Memory report after 1h hour of navigation on 2 to 3 tabs (no facebook
> though, because it's a browser killer to me):
> Memory
> Browser Private Proportional
> Chromium 155,276k 93,976k
> Firefox         99,604k    30,128k
>
> Usage on the report above: youtube, email, google search, forum reading.
>
> My vote: Firefox. I'm using FF 21 vs Chromium 25.0.1364.160 on this
> laptop.
>
> Anyway I stick with Phill's test once I believe it's more
> empiric/scientific.
>
> Just a note: Firefox tends to be slow to open, but after it's open, it's
> faster than Chromium to me. Not very important if we stick to the most
> important side: it's the surfing/browsing speed that counts more than the
> opening/initial loading.
>
> Question: why Midori is not a candidate?
>
> Cheers,
> Iberê
>
>
> 2013/5/31 Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>
>
>> Hi Boss,
>>
>> we did actually do some tests via
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603
>>
>> It was pretty clear that the slimmed down Ffox was better for low
>> resource machines (as evident in post
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603/comments/4)
>>
>> In all my dealings with Chad from Canonical who looks after Chromium, I
>> have have never had any cause to doubt his honesty and openness. That he
>> suggests staying with Ffox for ubuntu is a massive statement. IMHO, Lubuntu
>> would be wrong to not follow his advice.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> On 31 May 2013 22:55, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 31/05/13 21:56, Yorvyk wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us
>>>>>> :-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low
>>>>>> spec hardware).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I prefer Firefox in general (maybe because I am more used to it) but I
>>>>> use both. Sometimes it is convenient to run both at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>> But since I'm interested in the support of old and 'small' hardware, I
>>>>> have also tried Firefox and Chromium-Browser with very limited RAM
>>>>> (less
>>>>> than 1 GB). Then it is very obvious that Firefox is better. I have the
>>>>> same experience as Lars Noodén with the "it's dead, Jim" message in
>>>>> Chromium-Browser.
>>>>>
>>>>>  System - 450 Mhz PIII - 640 MiB RAM - Matrox MGA G200 VGA Controller
>>>>
>>>> Neither Firefox or Chromium will play Flash. Chromium invariably
>>>> displays the 'It's dead Jim@ message, FF just displays a blank space
>>>> but
>>>> at least it leaves the rest of the page intact.
>>>>
>>>> Memory usage when both idle with no extensions using about:memory in
>>>> Chromium.
>>>>
>>>> Firefox  - 39804k
>>>>
>>>> Chromium - 81164k
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Should have mentioned the memory readings took place using Saucy with
>>> Firefox 22 and Chromium 25.
>>>
>>>
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