Hi, Many people complained about the choice of Firefox on Lubuntu. It's time to discuss it, to see if it's useful to change for another one. I can see 3 possibles choices :
== Keep Firefox == + Firefox is well-known + Well maintained upstream and on Ubuntu + Many features - Slow on startup - Memory usage ? Rendering seems slower == Switch to Midori == + Small and fast + Memory usage - Upstream active but with limited developers compared to the 2 others. - Features limited == Switch to Chromium == + Similar to Chrome, which begin to be well-known + Good interface for small screen + Upstream active, supported by Google +- Firefox have still more possibility and features than Chromium ? Maybe be maintained by Mobile Team ? Private data send ? This is a quick benchmark I made, to have a quick view of performance for those 3 browsers. Startup : time to startup Memory 1 : Memory with google.com, wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu and gmail.com connected. Memory 2 : Same that 1 + 5 ubuntu.com pages Memory 3 : Closing all the pages except google.com . . Firefox . Midori . Chromium Startup 3.4s 1.8s 1.5s Memory using Xfce task manager . . Firefox . Midori . Chromium Memory 1 70Mo 33Mo 28Mo Memory 2 83Mo 78Mo 33Mo Memory 3 58Mo 45Mo 32Mo Memory using about:memory of Chromium . . Firefox . Midori . Chromium Memory 1 70Mo 21Mo 18Mo Memory 2 91Mo 72Mo 18Mo Memory 3 50Mo 38Mo 18Mo == Others choice == * Opera: Closed source. * Aurora: I can't see any advantage over Midori, with QT depends. * Epiphany: Too much GNOME depends. For now, I'm more for the Chromium option. Midori is nice, but I don't think we will have enough time to test and maintain it correctly. I'm interesting to have user experience with those browser on low ressources computers. If you are running Lucid, you can install them from official repository, and play with them :) Regards, Juline Lavergne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
