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Title: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: dibl on 2013/11/06, 14:21:05
There is a debconf warning about a grave bug in the newest chromium-browser package.  I can confirm -- it won't even launch on the system that I let it install on.
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: ghstryder on 2013/11/06, 14:25:37
See: http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=3960.msg33597#msg33597 (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=3960.msg33597#msg33597)
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: melmarker on 2013/11/06, 21:09:30
hmm, chromium and chrome was borked from the beginning :)
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: dibl on 2013/11/06, 21:17:43
hmm, chromium and chrome was borked from the beginning :)




Once upon a time, there was a browser named Firefox.  It had something named "npviewer" that I called "cpu chewer", because it would drive my cpu to 100% while I was not looking.  In those days, I learned to use chrome/chromium to avoid burning up my cpu.  Now it is just a habit -- iceweasel actually works fine too and I use it sometimes.   :D
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: melmarker on 2013/11/06, 22:31:04
chrome and chromium are fine browsers - except their caching behavior. this make web development and debugging nearly impossible. But for everyday usage booth are ok
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/11/06, 23:06:35
As you may imagine chromium is not my favourite browser. I feel it is difficult to customize and I hate its patronizing behaviour, for example showing the most visited websites in the startpage without giving the user a chance to put there what he wants.
So Opera is by far the best browser, but now dying (i.e. switching to the Blink rendering engine the Opera UI is heavily changing and loosing its mail integration).
FF/IW is an option (maybe seamonkey, which does not provide such a good mail integration as old Opera does).
my 2 cts
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: dibl on 2013/11/06, 23:14:54
I hate its patronizing behaviour, for example showing the most visited websites in the startpage without giving the user a chance to put there what he wants.


I don't understand this.  I have about 6 or 7 tabs set to open when I open the browser, and I don't see anything about most visited until I open a new tab -- then it shows the 8 most frequently used sites.  Usually I do want one of them, so that is a convenience that I appreciate.
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: devil on 2013/11/07, 14:29:34
Same here, I like the feature.


greetz
devil
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/11/07, 14:57:43
Fine.
But it may as well be you embellish a misfunction to autosuggest oneself how allegedly pretty functional this thing is. (Very unsure I made me understand with my not so polished english)

Im deutschen würde ich das "sich etwas schönreden (to sugarcoat sth.)" nennen.


Still, I have chrome installed, together with FF/IW and Opera, as a last resort ...
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: devil on 2013/11/07, 16:27:21
Thanks for the analysis :P


greetz
devil
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: michaa7 on 2013/11/07, 16:58:14
I wouldn't go that far to call it an analysis, but you're welcome!  8)
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: dibl on 2013/11/07, 17:15:33

But it may as well be you embellish a misfunction to autosuggest oneself how allegedly pretty functional this thing is.


Im deutschen würde ich das "sich etwas schönreden (to sugarcoat sth.)" nennen.



Ha ha ha -- michaa7 you have mistaken me for a person who gets emotional about a piece of software!   ;D
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: melmarker on 2013/11/07, 17:34:41
should be finally solved within the next hours:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728823
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: dibl on 2013/11/07, 19:10:50
Will the fix (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=3960.msg33597#msg33597) posted by clubex need to be reverted?
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: melmarker on 2013/11/07, 19:18:14
Don't know - we will see it - if the update throw errors, we know the reason. Eventually. :P
Title: Re: new chromium-browser really is broken
Post by: paleoflatus on 2013/11/10, 01:32:25
I lost Chromium when I did a d-u last week, but an update and install worked fine yesterday and it's been working fine since.
A couple of days on Iceweasel did me no harm and may have been good for my soul.