Chromium browser crazy nuts speed
Just been trying the Linux web browser Chromium..
A little on the ugly side, though it looks much better if you turn off “system title bar and boarder” from the right click menu on the top bar.
+ Super crazy fast / responsive
+ Forking () for each tab/window is a great idea.. no more hanging or full crashes from flashplayer or other buggy client side scripts
+ Works really well on trusty laptop 1.4ghz / 368MB ram
+ Great potential
- 3rd party stuff not 100%
- Still a lot todo
- Not exactly eye candy (doesn’t quite integrate or feel “in place” yet)
- Slows down after a number of tabs.. think it does ultimately use more ram due to replicating it’s self, but I would rather have a smaller number of tabs being more responsive than a larger number of tabs being unresponsive.
- No native 64bit version
Installed via the auto builds from https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
Installing flash can be done by symlinking (or copying if you so wish) the libflashplayer.so file into the /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/