In fact, if we were really looking for a lightweight browser, might I suggest Midori?[1] It's a Webkit based browser, very lightweight on CPU/RAM.
Cheers, James Gifford [1] https://launchpad.net/midori On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Hùng Trần <nguyentieu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I prefer Chromium, it's good on old machine. Firefox is almost useless on my > 256MB RAM laptop. > > Regards, > TRẦN Duy Hùng > http://www.nguyentieuhau.com/ > > > On 5 November 2011 22:11, James Gifford <ja...@jamesrgifford.com> wrote: >> >> I'm one of the "target audiences" for Lubuntu, mainly that of the >> underpowered netbook user. >> >> In my experience, Chromium is faster, until you start having a ton >> (read: 4-10) tabs open. At that point, Firefox starts to be better. >> >> Just my two cents. >> >> Cheers, >> James Gifford >> >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Stefano <eco.st...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: >> > On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:47:26 +0100 >> > "A. Andjelkovic" <andjelko...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> I wanted to bring up the discussion about replacing Chromium with >> >> Firefox >> >> in 12.04. >> >> I'm not sure if this was discussed on UDS, but in my opinion, this is >> >> worth >> >> looking into. >> >> >> >> Firefox has reduced it's memory usage dramatically, and I'm currently >> >> trying out Firefox 7 as a replacement. >> >> I do not have detailed memory benchmarks (yet!), but I will definitely >> >> do >> >> some benchmarks in the near future. >> >> However, I'm pretty sure Firefox has better (lower) memory usage when >> >> having several tabs open (more than 3). >> >> >> >> Other reasons to switch: >> >> GTK3 >> >> Better desktop integration (Chromium themeing is limited and hard to >> >> include as default) >> >> >> >> What do you guys think? >> > >> > +1, i love firefox, chromium is too much for "dummies" ;-) >> > -- >> > Stefano <eco.st...@fastwebnet.it> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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