On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 19:15, KS <list...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been an Iceweasel user since it entered Debian repositories. A > few days ago I discovered that Chromium was also available for Debian > and installed it. > > I feel it is more responsive and is "faster" than Iceweasel This could > be due to Chromium using different task for every tab it opens and using > its own window decorations (Iceweasel uses GTK+ and I use KDE). Even > with each tab increasing the use of memory by about 30MB, it still feels > faster than Iceweasel. No real tests done here, but Chromium does win > for responsiveness to a casual user. > > Being an Iceweasel user with the Adblock+ extension, I'm accustomed to > (almost) adfree web browsing. This hasn't worked as smoothly with > Chromium. There is an Adblock extension available for Chromium, but it > works in a different way that it shows the advertisement while the page > is loading and then hides the element. This is not as clean as Iceweasel > (firefox). In addition, the extension didn't block Google adverts! > Iceweasel takes this round (very important). > > And then comes the topic of shortcuts. I love the "/" shortcut for > Iceweasel, Chromium still uses the two-key combination of Ctrl+F! > Another fast shortcut is the Ctrl+Shift+Del which brings up the priate > data delete box. In Chromium one has to go through either preferences or > first History > Edit Items and then delete. > > Chromium was also behaving oddly when playing flash video on full > screen. The video was full screen but behind the browser window! > > The Adblock+ advantage with Iceweasel is the one factor which might keep > me away from Chromium unless better adblocking is implemented. > > What is the experience of other users who have tested out Chromium in > Debian?
I have the dev build installed. I used it a bit to play with Youtube's html5 version. I guess it's kind of fast, but I didn't really notice, although I didn't feel like using in a realistic browsing session of mine. I am kind of curious about how it would work when every session involves reopening 50-120 tabs (which is normal for me), but I can't tolerate the UI for that long -_- To the extent I did use it, it worked ok. On one of the dev updates, html5 audio was broken, but I filed a bug and it was soon fixed. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinjqgfuf7qsmb4hlexmgrs4j06wfgmehb8kr...@mail.gmail.com