Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
On 2013-06-02 00:39, Phill Whiteside wrote: ... > > Do we, as lubuntu, support losing 32 bit? No, we do not. Allow Chad to > make the call on whether v27 is viable for us. He knows a lot more about > this area than any of us :) > > > Regards, > > Phill. ... I agree, that we need 32 bit version

lubuntu 13.04: mouse middle button missing features

2013-06-01 Thread IberĂȘ Fernandes
hi folks, Lubuntu 13.04 mouse middle click: I'm not sure if it's a bug or not, or maybe a regression, change/improvement not listed on release notes. I've just upgraded from L12.04 to L13.04 (fresh install) and Microsoft Wireless mouse 3500 middle click is not: 1) copying/pasting as it used to; 2

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/01/2013 03:30 PM, Yorvyk wrote: > I've not found any down sides to zRAM with more than 512 MiB of RAM. > Below that, especially with CPUs below 1GHz, there are frequent pauses > as memory gets swapped about when the zRAM allocation has been used up > and swap starts using the disk partition/

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-06-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/01/2013 02:58 PM, Tong Sun wrote: > OMG, it's 10x simpler. All you need is your text editor, and AsciiDoc > of course. If the manual you are trying to use as a starting point is already in LaTeX, then the work of converting all of it correctly to any other format is large. That work is alm

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 23:25, Andre Rodovalho wrote: Tnx, I completly forgot that... FF on safe mode: Gmail only: 219.03 MB Gmail + facebook: 269.85 MB PS: FF memory use floats very much... It does appear to. I thought I was going crazy as I couldn't reproduce the results I got yesterday. Anybody else

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
I'm still somewhat confused as to why more tests are needed? The set I carried out for Chad Miller were a full set of tests. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+/chromium-bsourcerowser/+bug/1096603 If he asks for further tests under what ever system he requires, he knows to ask. The bug is assigned

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 22:46, Leszek Lesner wrote: Am 01.06.2013 23:21, schrieb PCMan: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi, In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox, or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some testimonies and any feedbac

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Andre Rodovalho
Tnx, I completly forgot that... FF on safe mode: Gmail only: 219.03 MB Gmail + facebook: 269.85 MB PS: FF memory use floats very much... 2013/6/1 Yorvyk > On 01/06/13 23:06, Andre Rodovalho wrote: > >> Another test: >> >> Facebook only: Firefox: 134.30 MB Chromium: 127784k >> >> Facebook + G

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 23:06, Andre Rodovalho wrote: Another test: Facebook only: Firefox: 134.30 MB Chromium: 127784k Facebook + Gmail: Firefox: 278.01 MB Chromium: 139352k My Firefox has some extentions (xMarks, Flash Video Downloader, Ubuntu Mod. and Global Menu...) Chromium has no extentions! Wh

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Andre Rodovalho
Another test: Facebook only: Firefox: 134.30 MB Chromium: 127784k Facebook + Gmail: Firefox: 278.01 MB Chromium: 139352k My Firefox has some extentions (xMarks, Flash Video Downloader, Ubuntu Mod. and Global Menu...) Chromium has no extentions! 2013/6/1 Andre Rodovalho > Made the test with

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-06-01 Thread Tong Sun
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Fernando Botelho wrote: > While I was following the thread, I couldn't help but attempting to >> recommend something else -- asciidoc from http://asciidoc.org/, because >> after all, when writing, the main focus should be on the content, and if >> the formatting is

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Andre Rodovalho
Made the test with "mem=512M nosmp" as suggested... My CPU is a Intel T7200 Both browsers with gmail only: Firefox: 187.28 MB Chromium: 16852k Gmail + Facebook: Firefox: 269.75 MB Chromium: 134220k 2013/6/1 Leszek Lesner > Am 01.06.2013 23:21, schrieb PCMan: > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 A

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 01.06.2013 23:21, schrieb PCMan: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi, In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox, or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some testimonies and any feedbacks about the use of the 2 browsers. We ne

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread PCMan
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Hi, > > In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox, > or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some > testimonies and any feedbacks about the use of the 2 browsers. We need > to evaluate the use of th

Re: RAM on Chromebooks

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 18:27, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/01/2013 01:49 AM, Yorvyk wrote: A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and RAM Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. Yes and no... I run a full Ubuntu 12,04 + LXDE installation (using the crouton sc

Re: How to test with low RAM and just one CPU core

2013-06-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Jonathan, please excuse my attitude in the last email (It was late and I was on my 2nd bottle of wine!). With respect to using the extras package in VBox, it is my understanding that the extra package is needed to access usb devices in order to boot from. It is roughly the equivalent of restric

Re: How to test with low RAM and just one CPU core (using Grub)

2013-06-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/01/2013 06:50 AM, Jose Lopez wrote: > Hi Jonathan, I'm very interested in learning CLI from Grub, never done > it before and I,m pretty new to (advance CLI) as I would look at it. is > there a link or a tut that you can point me to. I prefer to learn by doing, and by reading the docs that c

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread John Hupp
On 5/31/2013 1:53 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi, In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox, or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some testimonies and any feedbacks about the use of the 2 browsers. We need to evaluate the use of the 2 browsers *on old

RAM on Chromebooks (was: Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies )

2013-06-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 06/01/2013 01:49 AM, Yorvyk wrote: > A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and > RAM Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. Yes and no... I run a full Ubuntu 12,04 + LXDE installation (using the crouton script) in a chroot within ChromeOS on my XE3

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 31/05/13 22:55, Yorvyk wrote: On 31/05/13 21:56, Yorvyk wrote: On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote: So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us :-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low spec har

Re: How to test with low RAM and just one CPU core

2013-06-01 Thread Jose Lopez
Hi Jonathan, I'm very interested in learning CLI from Grub, never done it before and I,m pretty new to (advance CLI) as I would look at it. is there a link or a tut that you can point me to. Thanks Jose Lopez On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > On 05/31/2013 09:10 PM, Phi

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-06-01 Thread Fernando Botelho
On 06/01/2013 12:56 AM, Tong Sun wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: As far as I can see, Mallard is primarily intended for online browseable documentation, with output to other offline formats being secondary. LaTeX appears to be the other way around in terms of i

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-06-01 Thread Paul Sutton
On 01/06/13 04:56, Tong Sun wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Marsden > mailto:jmars...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: > > As far as I can see, Mallard is primarily intended for online > browseable > documentation, with output to other offline formats being secondary. > LaT

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2013, 09:49:17 schrieb Yorvyk: > A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and RAM > Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. Be aware that chromebooks by default also use zram to improve memory footprint. We might try that on low memor

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and RAM Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. -- Steve -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users