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rasat

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Firefox -> Chromium browser

Did my first try with chromium browser, removed firefox, and made chromium as my favorite.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31368

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ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Just curious... do the various Firefox extensions work with Chromium?

There are a few extensions that are a must have for me so I want to make sure they work with Chromium before I can consider installing it as a serious alternative.

Thanks! 

Last edited by ozar (2009-11-23 20:41:06)

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dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Nope, Firefox and Chromium are completely different platforms. Extensions are not compatible between them.

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Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

You can use Privoxy (Extra repository) to ad-block and filter cookies/scripts in Chromium and start Chromium with:

chromium-browser -proxy-server=http://127.0.0.1:8118

I'd upgrade to Privoxy Beta 3.0.15 though which you'll have to package yourself as 3.0.14 is in the AUR and is out of date.

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dcc24

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Also, this is an interesting presentation about the way Chrome handles extensions: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/30/google … fferences/

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

You can use Privoxy (Extra repository) to ad-block and filter cookies/scripts in Chromium and start Chromium with:

chromium-browser -proxy-server=http://127.0.0.1:8118

I'd upgrade to Privoxy Beta 3.0.15 though which you'll have to package yourself as 3.0.14 is in the AUR and is out of date.

No need for proxies. Adblock+ from chromeextensions.org

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Does anyone know if there's something like NoScript?

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Does anyone know if there's something like NoScript?

I don't want to seem like I'm trolling Chrome threads, but this makes it relevant...

If you're 'paranoid' enough to run NoScript, you probably don't want Chrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chr … e_tracking
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srwar … s_iron.php

karabaja4

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

I have no idea how the hell Google's tracking features are not removed from Chromium since it's open source? I mean, I'd understand for Chrome - it's closed-source and developed behind closed doors by Google, but Chromium now is out there, everybody can see it's code? Is Chromium (not Chrome!) developed by Google or by seperate community that took over the open source project that was basis for Google Chrome?

P.S. Please don't mix Chrome and Chromium, because in this mumbo jumbo of renamed forks I have no idea what we're talking about.

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Last edited by karabaja4 (2009-11-24 05:32:03)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

karabaja4:  Chromium is still developed by Google.  Have a look at Iron (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29218, but no native 64-bit) for a Chromium-based browser without usage tracking etc.

cliffbreaker

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From: Tiraspol, Transnistria

Registered: 2008-11-23

Posts: 52

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Well speaking about me, I got used to firefox and will never change it for other browser, and I don't mind that it consumes more RAM than others - got 2 GB of it. For me firefox is linux classics.

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zowki

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Registered: 2008-11-27

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

For some reason I get BSODS when using chrome with windows and segfaults when using with Linux. Google must really hate my computer.

Here is the last line of the BSOD message:

win32k.sys - Address 8F8372a1 bse at 8f800000, DateStamp 47e279ed

Here is the segfault in linux (i tried iron which is a modified version of chromium):

[1]   5214 segmentation fault (core dumped) iron

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Gigamo

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 394

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

I have to say I'm impressed as well, but until there's a native Vimperator-like extension for Chrome I'll be forced to stick with Firefox a little longer

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

I have to say I'm impressed as well, but until there's a native Vimperator-like extension for Chrome I'll be forced to stick with Firefox a little longer

Me too and I see this as a downside. I really want to play with another browser but I need vimperator!
I tried uzbl but it's just not my thing.

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mento

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Registered: 2009-10-15

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Well, I have a C2D 1.8 GHz with 1 GB ram machine with a ca. 1 MB/s connection and at my last tests (under Vista) I couldn't detect a difference in speed compared to Opera and Firefox for almost every site I checked. Only Google docs (and thus possibly other JavaScript intensive stuff) was faster with it. Ram consumption was ignorable even with 1 GB ram, but if I remember it correct Chrome was the hungriest the more tabs and windows were open. Quite possible that's a different thing under linux and/or with older machines.

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

..., but if I remember it correct Chrome was the hungriest the more tabs and windows were open. Quite possible that's a different thing under linux and/or with older machines.

That's because chromium starts a completely new process with every tab. You can see this easily with top, htop or such alike applications. I'm not completely sure if this is really necessary, most of the time it seems a waste of RAM.

Right now I'm back with midori and it feels really good, although I'd prefer something like uzbl, which is in a too early state for me. But chromium stays interesting, this is an amazingly fast piece of software.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

Now that you mention it, mento, I do remember hearing a while back that Chrome, while less RAM-intensive with few tabs, took up more than Firefox with many tabs.

It'd be nice if someone could test and compare

ArchArael

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Registered: 2005-06-14

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

I also am trying Chromium. I decided to give it a two/three weeks try.

Firefox has been a little bit unstable these days. Sometimes I had to kill it with SIGKILL because otherwise it wouldn't terminate.

The first thing that has impressed me has been Chromium's speed. Actually, it is insanely fast.

I am steel keeping Firefox on my machine though. Chromium also has crashed a bunch of times but had never blocked the audio channel so far as firefox did.

I think that having a process for each tab is a killer feature. I hope it will be built in Firefox too.

Anyway, I'm glad that there is Iron/Chromium/Chrome to wake up Mozilla organisation. Firefox has always been a better browser for Windows rather than GNU/Linux. This is not fair.

I don't use vimperator and at the moment I'm not missing any extension, except Firebug maybe. But when I need Firebug I can switch to Firefox.

I still don't know if using Iron is better than using Chromium though. Maybe I'll install it at home and will keep Chromium at work.

The only thing that bothers me is that Chinese characters are not displayed correctly. But it seems to be a webkit problem.

Try here to check: http://www.google.cn/

Instead of Characters I have rectangles. :\

Last edited by ArchArael (2009-11-24 16:44:31)

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

That seems like a font / setting at your end, displays fine here. You've set Unicode for encoding and have appropriate fonts installed?

whiteychs

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From: USA

Registered: 2009-02-13

Posts: 39

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

While I enjoy Chromium (I also use iron on my netbook) and prefer its interface, flash performance (especially fullscreen) seems to be lacking in comparison to Opera or Firefox.  That's the only caveat that's keep my default as Firefox.

ArchArael

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Registered: 2005-06-14

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

That seems like a font / setting at your end, displays fine here. You've set Unicode for encoding and have appropriate fonts installed?

Thank you for your suggestion. I didn't had problems with firefox so I didn't think that the problem could be missing fonts. I checked in wiki and I solved the problem installing these fonts:

pacman -S ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-fireflysung

Now Chromium displays characters properly.

Last edited by ArchArael (2009-11-24 20:23:26)

Nuz

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2008-11-29

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

I have been using Chromium for a week now, and I very much like it. It is considerably faster, more appealing and smoother than Firefox. However, flash performance and extensions are the only things that Firefox are better at, yet most of the time I still use Chromium.
Now that Google have said that there will be extensions available soon, I might switch completely.

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rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

pacman -S ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-fireflysung

Now Chromium displays characters properly.

Cool but Ouch... 79.9 Mb, that's a pretty hefty install for a few fonts

I've got the following installed, ~12Mb
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-6
local/ttf-dejavu 2.30-1
local/ttf-liberation 1.04-1
local/ttf-ms-fonts-lic 2.0-5
local/ttf-droid-20091910-1

also droid sans japanese (what I use in Chromium)

jowilkin

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Registered: 2009-05-07

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Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

P.S. Please don't mix Chrome and Chromium, because in this mumbo jumbo of renamed forks I have no idea what we're talking about.

They are pretty much the same.  Google runs the chromium project, when it's ready for release they will rebrand it google chrome with a couple small changes and a google logo.  Here is the "official" version of how the two differ: http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google … oogle.html

ArchArael

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Registered: 2005-06-14

Posts: 504

Re: Firefox -> Chromium browser

pacman -S ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-fireflysung

Now Chromium displays characters properly.

Cool but Ouch... 79.9 Mb, that's a pretty hefty install for a few fonts

I've got the following installed, ~12Mb
local/ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-6
local/ttf-dejavu 2.30-1
local/ttf-liberation 1.04-1
local/ttf-ms-fonts-lic 2.0-5
local/ttf-droid-20091910-1

also droid sans japanese (what I use in Chromium)

I know that they are quite big. Dejavu Sans should be enough. On firefox they are enough but on Chromium without these fonts the only thing I see are rectangles.