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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:02:43 +0000

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By: Robby

Robby — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:15:49 +0000

@felcipet: fair enough – my comment was aimed more as a personal preference than something that may apply to many. I don’t know what other’s experience is beyond what is indicated in the media and don’t have any objective comparison to make with those vs. my own experience. Suffice it to say that my experience with Firefox on a number of platforms incl. MacOSx, Windows and Linux ( a few distros ) does not present any big difference in performance. I know of the Flash issues and Firefox under Linux but those appear to be a thing of the past ( at least AFAIAC ). Considering the large extension market for Firefox, the quality of these may have an effect on Firefox’s performance. Once Chrome has something similar in place, we may see it in a different light w.r.t. performance too.

By: feicipet

feicipet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:00:00 +0000

@Robby: good for you. but at this point of time, it’s not only me who uses Kubuntu that I’m responsible for. I have 20+ employees who use Kubuntu as well and well, it’s a bit more complicated than to just say “hey, let’s switch distros”. Especially on account of a browser.

By: feicipet

feicipet — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:58:07 +0000

@leo: given the premise that I use Linux exclusively should exclude any comparisons with how FF runs on Windows, I guess. I know that FF runs better on Windows, but if I were to take that into consideration, should I consider switching OS’s to make my browsing experience better? Nah… too high a price…

but I do agree with you that browsers on Linux in general are always playing catch in one form or another for some reason…

Regarding Kubuntu: At this point of time, I’m aware of it being less than ideal. I do find adding different repos to get the rest of the 3rd party packages I need much easier than any RPM-based distro though, which is why I switched from Fedora and OpenSuSE in the 1st place a few years ago. Have not tried PCLinuxOS yet. Right now, I’m willing to wait a while and see how the Kubuntu team takes it. I’ve not lost my patience with them just yet.

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OStatic Buffer Overflow… | google android os blog — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:30:58 +0000

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By: leo laporte

leo laporte — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:18:25 +0000

I forgot to add one more thing:
Kubuntu.
Not the best KDE distro around IMHO. Definitely not top3 and not stable enough to recommend to family and friends.
Id recommend you give another KDE distro like Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, OpenSuse a try instead.

By: leo laporte

leo laporte — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:01:08 +0000

I see two problems with your premise.

First of all, Firefox on Linux sucks compared to FF on WIndows.
I now use Opera instead.

Who is to blame for the difference in quality of the browser on Linux as opposed to Win?
Or the fact that it doesnt integrate well with KDE overiding settings and such?

Of course this other FLOSS browser is not even available on Linux so I shouldnt be surprised at that I guess.

Open source browsers that dont work well with Linux are becoming common place.

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s5h.net » Blog Archive » Chrome Web Browser Assessed on GNU/Linux — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:15:34 +0000

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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:18:40 +0000

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By: Robby

Robby — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:15:20 +0000

I don’t appear to have the same issues as you do with Firefox. My fox ( 3.0.10 ) runs about 25 tabs on average and is responsive/fast, consumes about 10% cpu, and very seldom hangs. I certainly don’t have to put up with anything … in fact using the fox is a pleasure. Your issues might relate to you using (k)ubuntu; you may have a better experience using something like Slackware or Arch.