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? KS. -- 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/4bf349be.2070...@fastmail.fm
