Comments on: Firefox: Hearing Chromium’s Footsteps?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:07:37 +0000

I’ve found firefox on Ubuntu 9.10 slowly getting better. Actually less memory usage than a year or 2 ago. I can boot into a system with 3 or 4 apps open and usage is something like 230 Meg.

Chrome is snappier sure KTML has always been superior – but firefox only takes about 20-40 Mb of memory on an atom 330 and when the system has 2 GB RAM who cares?

The real hog now is flash with HD video. I want VDPAU or equivalent support.

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:07:09 +0000

@Mystic – sadly, there is no authoritative standard that all browsers agree to. UI designers need to test with multiple versions of IE, Safari, Firefox, Chromium based browsers, Opera, yada, yada, yada.

By: Mystic Raven

Mystic Raven — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:39:02 +0000

Chromium does not show websites as they are meant to be viewed. If you want to see what a website is actually supposed to look like you will have to use Firefox. Period.

By: No Asylum

No Asylum — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:35:39 +0000

Chrome and Chromium have one fatal flaw that make it completely unusable.

They render CSS code incorrectly. Until that is fixed they are useless and should not be used.

By: 532

532 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:50 +0000

A lot of people with new computers don’t understand the need for speed especially fast start ups. For example, many people still have XP based old systems or low performance computers like netbooks. Firefox performance on these machines leaves much to be desired from my experience.

Thus, Chromium blazing fast start up and resource management means the world especially for netbook people who need web browsers to be quick to load and resource efficient to squeeze out as much battery as possible.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:37:17 +0000

oops – the comment engine stripped off the “web-app-name” from the argument line. It should have read:

–user-data-dir=”..\Local Settings\Application Data\Chromium\User Data\[web-app-name]”

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By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:15:32 +0000

@Corey / etal,

Thanks for starting me down the path of “command line settings”. The trick to having Chromium apps with separate settings it to setup separate “user-data”. It’s a bit messy at the moment and some of the web posts are out of date but on Windows, add the following:

–user-data-dir=”..\Local Settings\Application Data\Chromium\User Data\”

where “web-app-name” is anything you want to call this profile to keep it separate from other instances of Chrome.

Now I can have my Google Voice application shortcut signed in with one set of credentials and Google Reader, GMail, etc. with other settings and credentials.

By: Natthu

Natthu — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:45:19 +0000

I couldn’t agree with you more. I have been an ardent firefox fan for more than 7 years but I just couldn’t resist Chromium on Linux. As you say, its just so fucking FASTER and snappier. Plus, the development has been pretty steady and is only gaining more pace day after day. It may end up even better than Chrome on Windows!

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:43:00 +0000

@Corey – thanks for the tip – it *almost* works. It still give my credentials to any Chrome window I open while the “application” session is active. I did some digging and what Prism is doing is creating a whole new “profile” for each web application.