chromium default browser? (Page 3 of 4)

Ooh, I like that idea! +1

I personally would be in favour of having Chromium as default. I never had aforementioned issue with fonts, or any other issue in fact. It is already default on my system, winning my affections over other browsers. I find Firefox resource hungry and UI real-estate wasteful. UZBL I found to also be somewhat powerhungry, especially as its supposed to be minimalist and basic. What constitutes to it's minimalism is lack of tabs and counter-intuitive navigation and usability.

Other browsers such as Midori and Aurora I found have serious problems with flash. So unfortunately were pushed out of the 'serious contender' position for me.

Saying that I do use Firefox at work for front-end development for it's numerous plugins and scripts. And if we see enough of a push in the html5 direction would gladly move to using Aurora as a default browser as flash support would become irrelevant.

Please remember that everything said in the post is solely representation of my opinion based on personal experience.

As you have said, lets not get into this argument, but I have used tabbed UZBL before. And I stand by my point that it lacks tabbed support. Sticking two more wheels on a bike does not make it a car.

For those fans of Chrome, here's how to put it in your repository ..

sudo wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -

Then open up Synaptic and add to your repository list -

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main

It's a memory hog like Firefox used to be, you need to restart it frequently if you open 1000 tabs.
It's fast and good, I actually prefer it above Firefox when I don't need Firebug or anything fancy.

I use it with the flashblock plugin.
It can be the default browser, even better if we hook it up with a Crunchbang linux theme.

As for some reason Firefox is extremely slow to load pages when I'm running a original Debian-based system ((inkl. #!) - it is running lightning fast in Mint 9 in Virtualbox though), I've changed to Chromium, and now webpages load before I even hit the button (nearly). I've never really seen as fast a pageloader as this, and I'm very happy about it as now I get to keep my lovely Debian Testing - instead of having to switch to Mint because of a stupid browser.

bastiano, with the context, I think steen was actually saying they'd rather not switch distros over an issue with one single application (the browser) and not actually calling Firefox a stupid browser. I might be wrong, but that's how I understood it

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Edit- I'm starting to get on board with the idea of Chromium being the default. It's been shaping up nicely recently.

Last edited by chillicampari (2010-08-22 01:59:39)

Personally, options are nice.  I like the simplicity of chrome - albeit I understand there are some privacy issues.  You can mitigate a lot of those issues by going to your google dashboard.  For example, I do not let Google track my browsing history.  Can they?  I'm sure, but so can everyone these  days.  Just do a search and you'll see how many advertising and other like programs run in just about every single page you visit.  It is insidious.  Only to say, put  things in context.

Opera is nice, but I find that many sites are not fully compatible.  I cannot find it, or aurora, or others mentioned in the #! package manager; yes once can download and manually install.  I'm a noob and sometimes a package manager is relaxing.

Again, the more the choice the better.  Looking at the Chromium wiki, it is fully open-source and some distros, to include Arch and the like, maintain it in their repository.  Again, why not maintain as many of these browsers as possible and let the users decide.

Not sure how helpful all this was.  I crave choice.  #! is a choice.  I would like to see more choices in my browsers and, as noted earlier in the thread, it might behoove distributions to include more choice either at install or through repositories.

Until then, keep #!'ing.

Google Chrome is the latest fashion, a little like Opera was for a while.  Personally I can't use it for a number of reasons and still have Firefox.  It is also fashionable to complain about Firefox resource hunger, but it depends very much how you use it.  I only have 320MB of RAM and don't have any trouble.  Chrome was a complete beast when I crammed it full of tabs, so I guess you have to pick which one works best for you.  Just make sure there is something in the distro, it would be pretty scary to be sitting in front of a new install wondering how on earth to get on the internet.

BTW, almost everything you read about Firefox memory use, including the configuration options, is now wrong.  The cache design changed radically sometime during the v3.5 releases.  I think you'd still call it a work in progress, but worth giving a new release a try if you struggle with Firefox chewing up your memory.

Last edited by iann (2010-09-10 23:47:03)

Ran across this today looking for something else but it's a workaround for the wonked out colors when using GTK integration.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ … ntegration

It's not perfect, but I got it looking a lot better than it was by adding it to the .gtkrc of the current theme I'm using.

I tried using system borders for full integration, it's not quite right (feels cramped), but it matches up better just by using the right color set.

It's getting there but I still have to have Firefox around for some things, like for example WebEx, Bugzilla, SSL VPN into my work and  also a few web sites that just don't play nice with Chrome.  That and there are a few FF plugins that are a must have for me like HTTPFox, but give it some time, it's getting there.  I use it now for 99% of my browsing, it's sweet.

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