Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[Andre Rodovalho]

Made the test with "mem=512M nosmp" as suggested...
My CPU is a Intel T7200

Both browsers with gmail only:
Firefox: 187.28 MB
Chromium: 16852k

Gmail + Facebook:
Firefox: 269.75 MB
Chromium: 134220k


2013/6/1 Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de>

> Am 01.06.2013 23:21, schrieb PCMan:
>
>  On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Julien Lavergne<gilir at ubuntu.com>  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
>>>
>> I did some test with my old dsektop PC with the following spec:
>> CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz (single core) with HT turned on.
>> RAM: 768 MB
>> OS: ArchLinux (no ubuntu on this machine)
>> I tested Firefox, Chromium, Midori, Arora, and Qupzilla.
>> None of them work after I open more than 3-4 tabs because they use up my
>> RAM.
>> Almost all of them are frozen after I open facebook + yahoo.
>> The command "free" showed that simply after opening 3-4 pages I run
>> out of my RAM.
>> My swap is being used quite frequently. Hence the freeze.
>>
>> However, after I did the following, things changed a lot.
>> 1. Use CK-patched kernel (BFS scheduler)  =>  only mild improvement
>> 2. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to set "swappiness" to 10 instead of the
>> default 60 =>  use swap less frequently inititally
>> 3. Install zram module =>  Greatly improve overall performance!!!
>>
>> After the preceding changes, Midori becomes the fastest. Things are
>> still smooth after I open several tabs.
>> Switching among tabs are fastest with Midori. Then Firefox is the
>> second smooth browser.
>> Arora and Qupzilla are still slower than Midori.
>>
>> I dropped Midori long time ago because it crashes constantly.
>> However it has improved a lot in these years, too, just like Firefox.
>> So maybe it should be an option again.
>>
>> I'd suggest that we enable zRAM by default on Lubuntu and set
>> swappiness to a lower value.
>> Compression/decompression in RAM is something that a 586 cpu can do
>> easily so it's always faster than reading or writing to the swap. It
>> also decreases read/writes for your hard disk due to decreased use of
>> on-disk swap. This is a plus if you're using SSD.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>  +1
> zram really should be enabled by default. There are now downsides to it.
> Tweaking the sysctl.conf swappiness is however another question. I would
> recommend leaving it at the default value.
>
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