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by calebsurfs 3468 days ago
I'm surprised they ship with chromium, I have had a much better experience with firefox than Chrome on my low end laptop.

Does chromium have a smaller memory footprint than Chrome?
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Klathmon 3468 days ago
Chrome and chromium should have about the same footprint.

But IIRC chrom(ium|e) modifies it's memory usage quite a lot depending on the hardware it's running on.

If it's a low spec machine, it will disable many of the memory-hungry features and speed improvements.

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type0 3468 days ago
> Does chromium have a smaller memory footprint than Chrome?

If it does it's negligible after you disable google apps addons and flash.

Had the same experience, my old AMD semphron can't handle Chromium but Firefox runs just fine. That machine has 2GB DDR-I RAM but it is almost nonexistent CPU cache that kills it.

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