Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[John Hupp]

On 5/31/2013 1:53 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox,
> or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some
> testimonies and any feedbacks about the use of the 2 browsers. We need
> to evaluate the use of the 2 browsers *on old and not-so-fast
> hardware*. It's important because our main targets are this type of
> hardware. I know people are using Lubuntu on high specs hardware (like
> me), but this is not our main goal to optimize the system for this
> type of people.
>
> One tip if you want to compare memory usage between the 2 browsers :
> go to the address chrome://memory under chromium. That should not be
> the only source of information, but it can help in your evaluation.
>
> 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).
>
> Thanks in advance :-)
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>

For the specialty slow, low-spec hardware case of thin clients (LTSP) on 
Lubuntu, I found that Chromium had choppy video performance, but Firefox 
was fine.

The cause?

There is a bugreport, 
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28544 , quoting:

Comment 25 by evan at chromium.org , Jan 26, 2010
Chrome has a different drawing model than other browsers (due to the 
sandbox, web pages render as images).  It means that it is unlikely to 
ever perform as well over remote X as other browsers.