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Chromium versus Chromeplus

What are your thoughts?

I was using Chromium, but I really dislike how you can't modify where the cache is located-- further more you can not 'delete history' and other traces upon exit. The Chromium cache becomes quite bloated. In a day of moderate use, it was up to 300mb! On my Windows install, I have seen the Chromium cache go over 2gb.

I have a separate 2gb tmp partition (reiserfs), and I did it for a reason.

I am now using Chromeplus, and I changed the cache to /tmp. I think this is a much better way to go-- less bloat, more control of what is going on etc. Chromeplus also comes with some very useful built in features like 'double click closes tab' which is nice to not need an extension for it, among other things. Chromeplus has the option to edit how the browser interacts with memory and processes, which is nice I suppose, if you want to lower the RAM use, or spread it out across more processes for stability.

Speed wise, I can't tell any difference between the two.

What are your thoughts?

edit:

Thought I would add a Chromeplus link in case anyone hasn't heard of it: http://chromeplus.org/

Last edited by Google (2010-06-05 15:44:48)

Anikom15

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

How in God's name did you get that name?

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

Well I suppose no one had it

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Honestly, I had to sleep with the entire mod team

Last edited by Google (2010-06-05 16:28:53)

skottish

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

Please don't post non-Arch specific topics in the Arch Discussion subforum. 

Moving...

moljac024

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

Well I suppose no one had it

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Honestly, I had to sleep with the entire mod team

Did you do them all at once, or one at a time?

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tomk

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

On-topic please - if you want to discuss the apparently fascinating topic of how the OP got his nick, do it in off-topic, or in another forum altogether.

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

Seems to me like it'd be easier just to mount a tmpfs on $HOME/.cache/chromium. The other stuff you mentioned doesn't really apply to me. Then again, I recently ditched Chromium for uzbl.

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xduugu

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Registered: 2008-10-16

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

I was using Chromium, but I really dislike how you can't modify where the cache is located

Actually, it's quite easy to change the cache directory:
$ XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp chromium

some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Chromium versus Chromeplus

$ cat ~/.bin/chromium 
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/chromium --disk-cache-dir=/tmp/chromium.$USER.cache "$@"

Last edited by some-guy94 (2010-06-06 16:17:30)