This all sounds like personal preference and subjective arguments to me. After all, users can install whatever browser they desire.
Personally, I wish Lubuntu would boot as fast as it used to. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:55 AM, A. Andjelkovic <andjelko...@gmail.com>wrote: > Let's not start a war here... I don't want to be rude, but please keep > such personal opinions out of this discussion. > I think we can all agree that both Firefox and Chromium are rich in > features. > We are simply trying to find out which browser, out of Firefox and > Chromium, use the least resources. > We want to chose the lightest of the two to be our out-of-the-box web > browser, whatever users prefer to use after that is simply an apt-get away. > Let's not think in terms of "This is what I would prefer" but rather "This > is what a user on a low spec machine would prefer". > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> On 9 November 2011 06:03, Leszek Lesner <leszek.les...@web.de> wrote: >> >> > In my view Chromium offers still better features than firefox. Just look >> > at the HTML5 capabilities it just beats firefox here with in my view >> > important things just like HTML5 videoplayback (H264 is supported) >> >> Google is dropping H264 support: >> http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html >> >> > or the fact that every browser tab in chromium is running as a different >> > process in a sandbox which makes a crash of one tab not concerning for >> > other tabs. >> >> Firefox might do that in the future also, but it costs memory to >> sandbox each browser tab. And I believe Chromium cheats: when >> available memory gets too low, tabs begin sharing the same process so >> it's a bit harder to know what's really going on. >> >> > All in all I am in flavor of Chromium as its still faster and offers the >> > better features. >> >> That's a bit subjective as Firefox also offers unique features: It's >> possible to run a few hundred tabs in Firefox; the design of >> Chromium's tabbar makes that much more painful in Chromium. Firefox >> has a much more powerful addon framework (although Chromium may >> improve this next year). The user has more control over his data with >> Firefox Sync than with Google's version. >> >> While I'm not a Google-hater, I think it's very important for the free >> web that Mozilla continues to exist. Since Mozilla is a bit more open >> than Chromium and multiple steps more open than Android, I think open >> source fans should consider supporting Firefox if the features are >> nearly equal, which in my opinion they are. This is why I hope Firefox >> continues to remain the Ubuntu default browser. Since Lubuntu has >> different constraints in choosing default apps, I'll let Julien and >> the Lubuntu devs make their own evaluation. Both browsers are fully >> supported in Ubuntu (Canonical is looking to hire someone who can help >> maintain Chromium). >> >> Jeremy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- Freedom is not free.
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