Google Chrome on XO: Love it!

[roystonlodge]

I recently installed the Google Chrome browser beta on my XO (replacing Iceweasel), and so far I love it. Zippy startup and operation, integrates well with my LXDE desktop, and so far I've had zero stability problems. I recommend it to anybody who finds Mozilla a bit slow on their XO.

[carseats]

Mozilla is slow!

[roystonlodge]

I've since discovered one problem with Google Chrome - it doesn't seem to recognize that I have Java installed. The java plugin appears to be mozilla-only.

Maybe there's a workaround, but so far I have not found it.

[genesee]

Please tell me how to get Chrome on my G1G1 xo running build 802? I will dance at your wedding. And, yes, I have a devkey!

[roystonlodge]

I'm not a Fedora expert (I installed on Debian), but as best as I can gather:

Download the 32 bit rpm at http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?platform=linux

Open the terminal activity and type sudo yum install /path/to/rpm/file

I do not guarantee that's how it works. You might want to confirm elsewhere how to install an rpm file.

[ramsey75]

eye to eye!

[topuser]

yeah i think google chrome is much more optimized for the XO

[George30]

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[prabashwari]

Yes Google Chrome is very fast and lightweight.

On the other hand Firefox is heavy on the processor but security is better than chrome.


Do i even need to talk about IE?

[roystonlodge]

What a difference a couple of years makes.

Since I originally started this thread, successive versions of Google Chrome have gotten bigger, and slower, and less stable on the XO-1.

Today, it has a larger memory footprint than Firefox, both in terms of how much storage space it requires and how much RAM it requires to run.

I find that the latest versions of Google Chrome brings my XO-1 to a crawl, and it also crashes very, very frequently.

As such, I have gone back to using Firefox.

There was an article on CNET that claimed Google is trying to reverse this trend.

My plea to Google: Release a bare-bones version of Chrome that provides users with basic browsing without unnecessary bloat. No Flash support. No Java support. No plugins support. Lightweight computer users need a browser that's a big step up from Dillo (which really doesn't cut the mustard any more, even for lightweight users) but doesn't eat up all the computer's RAM and CPU.

[roystonlodge]

FYI: Another update.

I recently did two things which seem to speed Chrome up a bit:

1) I installed bleachbit and used it to clean out the cache. It had become really full. (In fact, bleachbit seems like a "must-have" app for the XO, in order to save much-needed storage space.)

2) I uninstalled google-chrome, and replaced it with chromium-browser, the open source version of the browser. I'm told that it doesn't "call home" to Google like the nonfree version does.

Your experience may vary, of course.

[roystonlodge]

For what it's worth, I ran a few different browsers through the benchmarking test at http://browsermark.rightware.com.

These were the results:

Chromium : 28871
Midori : 21348
Opera : 15426
Iceweasel (firefox) : 6784
Iceape (seamonkey) : 6782

[sarfa]

I am also using Chrome on my XO and Its working really great. thanks !!