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Re: [LUG] Chromium Browser

 

On 16/08/15 13:44, Simon Avery wrote:
    On 16/08/15 12:03, Neil Winchurst wrote:

        As per my previous thread where I have been having problems with
        Firefox using my bank on line. I thought I would install chromium
        browser to see if it is as bad as I remember. Answer, even worse.


Personal and subjective choice. I switched entirely to Chrome over a
year ago. it was not a painless move from FF, but I had become
increasingly disenchanted and confused by Mozilla's design choices. The
recent fuss about pre-enabled services causing bloat is an example, but
they started a long time ago. Chrome is faster and more consistent -
once you have become used to it.

Firefox was getting seriously bloated and heavy to use. Now - Chrome is
no angel for memory use - in fact it's a very hungry hippo indeed, but
at least the separate process do allow for much better memory management
than FF, which if something leaked, would get big and stay big until a
restart. I don't like restarting my browser and ime, chrome is far far
more stable.


        Where is the menu bar? There isn't one.


Don't need it. (FF lost their standard some time ago too - you can
re-enable if of course, but then they were actively trying to mimic
Chrome's interface. FF's default 'File' button is similar to Chrome's Menu)


        I like to open my browser with an empty tab. Can I do that? No.


You can, it just infills with a search bar, should you want one. That's
heavily cached and doesn't impact performance in any meaningful way.

        I don't want to find that I have Google up and running when I
        log on.


Persona choice. I find it very useful but I can understand you might not.

        There is something called a speed dial which appears on the
        page. Can I
        close that? No.


I don't know what that is. I suspect there is an extension at play. I
don't have anything like that with Chrome or Chromium.

        The tab bar is in the wrong  place.


Um. It's exactly where *I* like it to be!

        To me one of the main benefits of Linux is that it should be very

        configurable. When FF changed to the Australis set up I didn't
        like it
        at all. However I was able to turn it back to the old look quite
        easily. And there was no menu bar, but this was easily restored.
        Edit,
        preferences is very comprehensive. To me this ability to go back
        to an
        earlier look and feel is important.


Alternatively, a piece of software that is identical in behavior across
each of its platforms has a big positive for many users who don't care
about what OS is running beneath.


        Now to remove chromium,


Viva la choice!

Seriously - I was just as negative as you were and moved back to FF
several times until my bemusement and frustration caused me to give it a
proper go, and I now love it.
On 16 August 2015 at 12:43, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    The stopper for me in chromium has always been tabs. If I hold
    control and click on a link to open in a new tab I want the browser
    to go to that tab. The default in chromium and FF is to open the tab
    in the background but it is simple to change in FF preferences. Not
    so in chromium as far as I can see.


Just as Firefox got popular through use of extensions, so has chromium.

TabsPlus is the extension you want. (And maybe closetab for a single
closetab button if that's your wont).




Is chrome MPU capable - can it use lots of cores well? One problem with FF is a tab goes ape your stuck and have to kill the whole thing - it would be nice to be able to have the 'app' running on one core and the tabs being shared around the others so you can kill errand tabs...
Tom te tom te tom

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