vUDS and preparation for 13.10

[Phill Whiteside]

Indeed,

for those not too familiar with the history of choices, the choice to move
TO Chromium was because it ran on the lower RAM machines and that Firefox
had become bloated. This has now changed and Firefox now offers the lower
RAM usage. I repeat, this is confirmed by the Canonical guy who looks after
Chromium. At each cycle we address which are the 'leanest' applications. We
hold no fan club of applications, if a leaner application arrives that
gives the same usability as an existing one, then we use it.

We ship pidgin by default, some people prefer X-Chat. We discuss things and
then a decision is made. In this case, my vote is as always.... Use the
application that uses the lowest resources. That is what lubuntu is built
on.

Regards,

Phill.

On 20 May 2013 19:34, Ian Gilfillan <launchpad at greenman.co.za> wrote:

>
>  I find your claim that 95% of the people prefer Chromium dubious.
>>
> Dubious is not the word.
>
> But leaving aside the brave cry on behalf of the imaginary 95% who are
> unable to install a browser of their choice, Firefox is a better default
> browser choice for Lubuntu as these days, unlike in the past, it works
> better on low memory machines. Mozilla's MemShrink project has worked hard
> on reducing Firefox's memory usage:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/**nnethercote/category/memory-**consumption/<https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/memory-consumption/>
>
> Some other recent benchmarks:
> http://myworldthruabrowser.**blogspot.com/2013/01/firefox-**
> 18-gets-reviewed-and.html<http://myworldthruabrowser.blogspot.com/2013/01/firefox-18-gets-reviewed-and.html>
> http://www.zdnet.com/time-to-**take-another-look-at-firefox-**7000009692/<http://www.zdnet.com/time-to-take-another-look-at-firefox-7000009692/>
>
> For Lubuntu, that should be the primary deciding factory. Better
> accessibility, support for the Mozilla Foundation over Google - these are
> all extra plusses, but Firefox performance on low memory machines should be
> the primary reason to switch.
>
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