Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[Andre Rodovalho]

Another test:

Facebook only:
Firefox: 134.30 MB
Chromium: 127784k

Facebook + Gmail:
Firefox: 278.01 MB
Chromium: 139352k

My Firefox has some extentions (xMarks, Flash Video Downloader, Ubuntu Mod.
and Global Menu...)

Chromium has no extentions!



2013/6/1 Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>

> 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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