Chromium

[Peter Matulis]

On 10/12/2013 07:33 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
> 
> firefox went on to a diet.
> when https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603
> first 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/4
> I'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.

Funnily enough, I switched to Chromium because Firefox was rendering my
system unusable whenever I used Google Hangouts with more than 6 or so
people, something I do regularly.

~peter