[ale] Chromium Browser

John Jajeh jpjajeh at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 00:14:31 EDT 2017


I'll check that out. Thanks!

Much appreciated,
John Jajeh

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:56 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's built with Electron, and therefore is just Chrome with a different
> shell -- https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop
>
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been recently using Brave with Vivaldi as my secondary browser.
>> Brave has ad blocking built in and on by default. It also seems to have no
>> problems with page rendering or playing videos on the sites I tend to
>> visit. I have not closely checked memory usage of either. Brave, I believe,
>> has its own rendering engine as it built using Rust. Vivaldi is a Chromium
>> derivative, so I would expect to have a similar footprint to Chromium.
>>
>> On 09/17/2017 08:35 PM, John Jajeh wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Allen! I appreciate your input.
>>
>> Best,
>> John Jajeh
>>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2017 8:29 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm a die-hard Firefox user, so you can guess my recommendation.  I use
>> what has consistently worked for me.
>> Plus, it is included with the base OS, and you won't have to add another
>> repo.
>> Good choice on openSUSE, BTW!
>>
>>
>> On 9/17/17 7:13 PM, John Jajeh wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone!
>>>
>>> I recently installed openSUSE on a virtual machine and wanted your
>>> opinions in regards to a suitable internet browser. I have always used many
>>> different google applications (gmail, google drive, YouTube, etc.) and was
>>> initially thinking of using Google Chrome over Firefox (due to the fluidity
>>> of the applications with that browser). However, I am aware of how
>>> laborious Chrome is on a computer in terms of ram, battery life, etc. After
>>> some research, I found out about Chromium, an open source version of
>>> Chrome. Has anyone used this specific browser for openSUSE or any other
>>> distro? If not, what other browser do you use?
>>>
>>> Much appreciated,
>>> John Jajeh
>>>
>>>
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