Chromium

[Ronald]

Hi Phil,

Very interesting. I certainly have used them both recently, and
Chrome/Chromium
still feel faster than Firefox. This is a subjective opinion of course.

Couldn't we do a user poll first before switching? I'm pretty sure the
majority of
Lubuntu users would prefer Chromium than Firefox.

Regards
Ronald







On 13 October 2013 10:33, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Ronald,
>
> firefox went on to a diet. when
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603first arrived, it was "all hands to the pumps". a LOT of testing was
> carried out. The most telling comment was
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603/comments/4I've been in regular contact with Chad (he's even put up my occaisonal
> frustrations). I happen to like chromium and will continue to use it along
> with firefox (they are both currently running on my system). Should it
> happen that chromum becomes less RAM hungry for the low resource machines,
> lubuntu will switch back faster than you can blink! We are browser
> agnostic, and will ship which ever one that servers the low resource
> machines the best.
>
> I cannot immediately put my hands on the discussions, but they are in our
> mailing list archives.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 12 October 2013 22:54, Ronald <ron4ld at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> Really?? I will be really surprised,
>> do you have the link to the test result?
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, 13 October 2013, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ronald,
>>>
>>> on the tests carried out earlier in the cycle, Firefox was found to out
>>> perform chromium on low ram machines.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 October 2013 00:57, Ronald <ron4ld at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the reason to move to Firefox? Chromium is a much better browser
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 12 October 2013, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> whilst in 13.10 we are moving to firefox as the default browser,
>>>>> support for chromium continues. To this end, version 30 has hit testing.
>>>>> Chad would specifically like it tested on low ram machines to check it is
>>>>> okay on low ram machines. The chase for
>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603
>>>>>  continues!
>>>>>
>>>>> You can grab v30 from
>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~cmiller/+archive/chromium-browser-stable-daily if
>>>>> you're not familiar with adding PPA's, head over to
>>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PPA_Testing
>>>>>
>>>>> That PPA can be trusted :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Phill.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
>
>
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