Comments on: Testing Chromium on Ubuntu

By: Antonio Roberts

Antonio Roberts — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:29:27 +0000

I don’t know why people are afraid of bloating or adding lots of features to software. It’s only a bad thing if it reduces the performance of the software. In this case, even at a beta stage it has lots of features and still runs well.

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:56:55 +0000

Without NoScript and more ability to customise the interface, I’ll stick with Firefox. I don’t notice that Chrome is all that much faster than Firefox for general surfing…just the start up is appreciably faster.

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:32:07 +0000

Yes, I think that’s the bottom-line. Choice is good. I have Opera, Konqueror, Firefox and Chrome (the default browser now) installed, for the occasional stupid page that works in one and not in another.

In that regard, we should all be grateful to the FF community for bringing choice a few years back, at a time when most web pages were written “for IE”. The sole presence of Firefox helped make the web a better place, and we can enjoy that today with any browser (including the great FF). Cheers!

By: 1916home.net

1916home.net — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:16:16 +0000

I second a nod for Opera. I jump between all three lately… FF, Opera and Chrome. Im not happy with FF speed, but it does everything I need it to do. Opera is fast and shows webpages correctly, but java doesnt work well for me in Opera. While Chrome is super fast,flash in Chrome doesnt work on half of my computers. It somehow reverts to an older version of flash, making simple webpages like Youtube unusable. Java appears to work on all computers in Chrome, but going to a site like Pogo.com and java really doesnt work. I dont go there often, but when I help older computer users switch from Windows to Ubuntu, game sites that use java are a must! So I need the browser to just work.

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:02:06 +0000

darkhole: you’re right about the flash plugin. Thanks for catching that. I had purged the flashplugin-nonfree package but still had flash in Chromium, so I thought it was doing it on its own. Apparently Adobe’s flash had also been installed with a second package, however, and that’s what provided the codec for Chromium. I’ll update the post.

By: Techs Palace

Techs Palace — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:06:43 +0000

Not to forget each tab and also ”extentions” runs on seperate process.

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By: ricegf

ricegf — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:38:10 +0000

I’ve tried both, and agree Chromium feels “lighter” and “faster” than Firefox, but also clashes with the Ubuntu default themes (and none of the themes for Chromium really “fit” with Ubuntu – I tried them all).

By the way, on my netbook, I use F11 with Firefox to browse full-screen (NO controls or window borders AT ALL). Bump the cursor against the top of the screen to change tabs, enter a URL, go back or reload. F11 again to see the status bar or the OS widgets. It’s the only way to browse on a netbook, IMHO.

I’m staying with Firefox for now, but with one eye on Chromium. Choice is good!

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Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:26:05 +0000

[...] Testing Chromium on Ubuntu I’ve read a lot about Google’s Chrome browser in the blogosphere, but have yet to see it being used in the wild. Given this observation, and my increasingly strained relationship with Firefox, I decided to give Chromium, the open-source browser on which Chrome is based, another try. Here’s what I found. [...]

By: darkhole

darkhole — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:29:51 +0000

“Perhaps the most impressive feature, at least to me, was Chromium’s built-in support for flash and similar content. There’s no need to install Adobe’s plugin, which is handy.”

Come on.. Chrome/Chromium just use the same dir of Mozilla Firefox for plugins (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/). There is no magic… The Flash plugin is NOT embedded in Chrome/Chromium

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:28:41 +0000

If you haven’t tried Opera for Linux lately, I’d strongly recommend the latest version — 10.10 — which I’m using on Ubuntu.

Opera for Linux used to be the Norwegian-based browser’s worst — remember the miserable fonts — but no more.

In my opinion Opera for Ubuntu is now better than Opera for Mac or Windows. On my old PC it’s much faster than Opera 9.x, it looks terrific and the fonts are as good as any you’ll find anywhere.

Opera has often provided new features years ahead of better-known browsers. The innovation gap has narrowed with Chrome/Chromium and Firefox, but to my knowledge Opera is still ahead in offering great features such as “fit to width,” a button that ensures you’ll never have to scroll right to read a web page — no matter how big you make the text.

By: Daniel Añez Scott

Daniel Añez Scott — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:14:52 +0000

I’ve been using chrome/ium for the last months too. But i wanted to point out that there’s a nice extension that makes firefox use screen space more efficiently. It’s called meerkat http://banshee-project.org/~abock/meerkat/

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:35:57 +0000

Steve: thanks for pointing out the themes. I did read about them but haven’t tried them myself yet. I actually just prefer the standard gtk+ theme so that Chrome fits in with everything else.

adam: thanks for the tip on that bug. If I end up going back to Firefox I’ll keep it in mind. Hopefully they’ll fix the issue soon.