new chromium-browser really is broken

[dibl]

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.

[ghstryder]

See: http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=3960.msg33597#msg33597

[melmarker]

hmm, chromium and chrome was borked from the beginning

[dibl]

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.   

[melmarker]

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

[michaa7]

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

[dibl]

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.

[devil]

Same here, I like the feature.


greetz
devil

[michaa7]

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 ...

[devil]

Thanks for the analysis


greetz
devil

[michaa7]

I wouldn't go that far to call it an analysis, but you're welcome! 

[dibl]

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!   

[melmarker]

should be finally solved within the next hours:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728823

[dibl]

Will the fix posted by clubex need to be reverted?

[melmarker]

Don't know - we will see it - if the update throw errors, we know the reason. Eventually.