Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-04 Thread Jörn Schönyan
I would PERSONALLY prefer Chromium (on my machine I use Google Chrome): mainly because it has better Flash support. Even Chromium can use Google's Pepper-Flash, Firefox can not. But on old machines, Flash is often an issue that doesn't work (no hardware acceleration, no SSE2, low ram etc.) Al

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-03 Thread Erick Brunzell
On 06/04/2013 12:10 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > +1 for Firefox > I also prefer Firefox, but that's purely a matter of personal preference - not based any actual performance issues. Lance -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : ht

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-03 Thread Nio Wiklund
+1 for Firefox On 2013-06-03 22:04, Charlie Ford wrote: > Firefox all the way - Chromium barely runs on older hardware, doesn't > run on powerpc, and is a huge memory hog. Folks that are wanting > Chromium are more than capable of installing it; it's in the repos. > > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-03 Thread Charlie Ford
Firefox all the way - Chromium barely runs on older hardware, doesn't run on powerpc, and is a huge memory hog. Folks that are wanting Chromium are more than capable of installing it; it's in the repos. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:49 PM,

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-03 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > And for the 'old machines'? Last thread we were talking about was making > lubuntu-core more easily available. On these low RAM machines, which as > Chad has stated are limited to v25 Chomium unless he can get v27 to build > in 32 bit, I a