I tried chrome once, and really wasn't impressed with it. First of all, it didn't play nicely with my kde4 desktop, had its own fisher-price looking borders, etc. I also wonder how much of my browsing experience that google is caching and phoning home. I know I use gmail, though I have been reconsidering that as well...Since it has been almost painfully slow the past month or so...
--b On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Vince Vielhaber <v...@michvhf.com> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote: > > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. >> I >> have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a >> (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have >> memory >> leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount >> (10-30%) >> of memory. The work box has 3GB and the home box has 4GB. It also eats up >> a >> significant amount of CPU. >> >> This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was >> chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were >> hesitating for several seconds. >> >> So what do others use? >> > > Firefox 3.6.8 normally. On the work machine I use Google Chrome 'cuze > it's faster but I don't really like it much. Chrome will start acting > strangly if I have too many windows open that are full of tabs where > Firefox doesn't seem to have a problem with it. I like to take advantage > of the space in the status bar for extra buttons/functionality. Can't > do that with Chrome. Chrome makes you put all the extension buttons in > one place. Chrome's also not as configurable as Firefox. > > On memory leaks and stuff, they all seem to, especially if you use flash > and it seems just about every website on the planet uses it somewhere. > > When it gets too bad I just kill it with a -9 and when I restart it will > restore everything the way it was sans memory leaks. > > Vince. > -- > Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1009071012260.6...@paprika.michvhf.com > >
