<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> This has not been my experience. Flash seems to crash a lot in chromium, but it doesn't take it down. I've had Chromium blow out completely once, and once I've had every single page in it turn to "Sad Browser." But that was around Chromium 5. Firefox has been doing better, but it only seems to handle a Flash crash once or twice: after the first crash, if you reload a page with Flash, Flash will likely crash AGAIN very quickly and tear down the whole browser. Firefox also tends to go down if you have too much crap going on, i.e. if you load a page that runs excessive scripts or brings in too many GIF images. The whole UI will lag (Firefox 4 too), and often crash if it comes under too much load doing too many things (race conditions?). I've never seen Firefox actually free memory by closing a tab. Chromium has been a lot faster and a lot more stable for me. I use Firefox 4 at work and Chromium at home, and I'm constantly restarting Firefox after it crashes. I switched to Firefox 3 for a time, it's more stable but still crashes--a lot less than 4, but 2-3 times a week. Also, when one tab in Chromium is lagged down to the point of complete and total browser crawl, you can still switch to other tabs and use them like nothing is happening. So eh. What's "unstable"? On 05/01/2011 10:54 AM, Alexandre Strube wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:BANLkTinyJsv2LymhNzZ7=paWhNDQUQXBNg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Define "more advanced". <div> </div> <div>It is also less stable. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:36 PM, John Moser <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:john.r.moser@gmail.com">john.r.moser@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Has anyone yet brought up the potential to ship Chromium default rather than Firefox? At this point it's more advanced methinks, with the only likely complaint being that you can't add NoScript or AdBlock+. Ubuntu doesn't ship these default anyway; if you want those things, you can get Firefox yourself, as you likely already know what you're doing. For the privacy discussion, see SRWare Iron as a potential source of ideas for changes to back-merge (or options to add). -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote> </div> -- [] Alexandre Strube <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:surak@ubuntu.com">surak@ubuntu.com</a> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>