chromium default browser? (Page 1 of 4)

No thanks.
I don't want google inspecting all my traffic.
I want to use a proxy.
There are a lot of add-ons that are not yet available on chrome.
I can't customize the toolbar and tab-bar on chrome to be really, really thin, giving maximum screen to content, like I can of FF.
There's no stop button on chrome, so I can't interrupt a page load part-way through, when I've already got the content I need, and don't want the rest of the images.

Those are just off the top of my head.  Also I think the 'stable', 'recommended' version will always be the google binary version, which to me is not compatible with open-source.

I prefer firefox (iceweasel/swiftfox) to chromium... i don't like the google policy on privacy...

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First of all I hope Chrome, or Chromium, is never the default in any Linux distro. Time's too short to list all the reasons why. That said, I have it on my system (Chromium) because there's a quirky news agency server that won't let me login with two accounts (for two languages) at the same time from one browser, so when I need to do this I must fire up another (beside my FF/Iceweasel). I tried Midori and whatnot but had to grudgingly settle for Chromium.

Now, as for the fonts, they were horrible when I used Ubuntu no matter what I did, however here I run a script to make fonts render sharp system-wide (tired old eyes thing), and this is what they look like in Chromium: http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5958 … 91280x.png

As for the speed of Chromium I see this argument as little better than pure hype. I don't care if it takes FF a nanosecond less to launch. I pretty much work from my browser and what concerns me is what it can do once it's launched. If anyone can recommend an equivalent of Tabmixplus for instance for Chrome that'd be great.

It, and many other applications should be left as optional.  The only complaint I've got against Chrome, Chromium, Iron is that on my personal device it's too big, especially its tabs.  Whose idea was that?!?  What I mean [without flaming] is that some people have chosen a smaller personal computer and not everything will fit, not everything will look good.  AND it's not as fast as everyone says but then my perception is entirely subjective and my only experience is on this original eeepc.

So, no: I think it should not be default on Statler 10. 

EDIT - sloppy sentence structure

Last edited by winotree (2010-06-20 21:00:27)

It does seem to open alot faster than iceweasel, and maybe be just a tad faster sufing.
In order to make it look right on both my CB systems I had to install ttf-bitstream-vera from the repos then in .config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences I had to add the line:
"minimum_font_size": 14 on my laptop and
"minimum_font_size": 15 on the desktop just to get it to look halfway decent. The lack of a stop button and the fact that when I click the config icon I sometimes miss and go alittle too high and hit the close button irritates the crap outta me. Yes I am old and my eyes arent so good.

well, if you want a even faster browser than chrome, with good font rendering and a stoploadingbutton: Opera. oh and it has a lot more features like dragonfly and the new beta 10.60b is fast. Tabs open in half the time (60 ms against 120 ms), benchmarks like peacemaker and flog canvas raytracer get higher rating in opera. I'd op for that if it was open source but otherwise: just stick with iceweasel

edit: just made it understandable

Last edited by Andreas (2010-06-20 21:35:23)

I'm loving Opera 10.6 or whatever (the new one!) in Windows. I'm waiting for them to release it for Linux, though.

Recently I use Midori exclusively. I love it. But I still think that Iceweasel/Firefox is the better option for a default browser.

People know it, even Windows users, and it has a massive library of 3rd party add-ons. It feels very reliable.