I am deciding to write a blog about how my five days with Chromium have been. I have been a very long and fanboy Mozilla Firefox user since version 3. I guess you can consider my viewpoint of FF is "FF is love. FF is life" as I love the huge amount of plugins and the use of only two processes (firefox.exe and the plugin container process) but this is about my five days with Chromium so I will start with this, I have never been so pleased with a web browser since the day I switched to FF. Chromium is so quick when it comes with flash content and It loads very quick on my machine. It is also very stable having flash content opened in one window and have multiple tabs open. I am sure though that it has something to do with the multiple sandboxed processes. This was taken with both browsers having the same YouTube video open at 480p. FF using Flash and Chromium using HTML5
Now for the bad of Chromium and this isn't a bashing. These are my honest opinions to almost make it a more perfect browser. Chromium needs proper bookmark support. I do not like how you only have one bar to view all your bookmarks although I did fix it with an extension that adds the star as you can see from the top image. There is still some weird annoyances when it comes to opening links and pictures. Chromium wants to download the images which I do not want it to. I would rather have it open into a new or window. For the links part, I use Startpage which uses Google results but it does not record you IP and cookies and whenever I click on the "Do you mean:" link, it redirects me to the homepage as if I am making a new search.
So is Chromium my new go to now that I have been using it for 5 days? I can say yes it is. It is a very good open source browser with a large ecosystem of extensions backing it. Firefox on the other hand has a much larger ecosystem of plugins but it does not have "apps". The plugins Firefox provide are for functionality rather than providing a way to use less mouse clicks which is good for competition. Will I use Google Chrome since they are the same thing? No, I do not trust what Google is doing with my data.
It must be just Linux then which is really sad since you guys always the crap end of the stick. I haven't seen any problems with app integration but that is probably because I use Windows. Bookmarks are last century as to why I downloaded an extension to fix that issue. I did say in the post that the plugins for FF "adds functionality". Adobe still supports Flash but they haven't updated it in a long time. They only provide security patches rather than providing a whole client update.
Really liked to see someone use Chromium! I used it myself (and still do on my MBP). But recently it's doing some werd things. Whenever I go to Google.com it just crashes. This only happend on my Windows machine. Now I've reinstalled Windows so now maybe it's fixed, I'll check it as soon as I get home.
I too really liked using Chromium, before that I used Nightly a lot, which I found really heavy. So ups for Chormium. I'll keep you updated on the crashing story.
Well here's an update. I just reinstalled Chromium and everything works perfect now. Last time I didn't use the mini installer, now i did and now it works like a charm.
Funny I was reading about the downloading images and thought that has never happened to me. they always just opened in new tabs, So I clicked you images and they downloaded instead of opening, interesting.
Either way you can right click and open in new tab to fix that, which is what i usually do any way.
As for the flash in chromium and chrome it is built into the browser and not external, probably why it is faster and more stable, but also why it runs so many processes and eats at memory more.
