Changing the default web browser

[Grooveschmied]

I would suggest to dismiss Iceweasel. Although the little pet is very cute, it lacks performance massively compared to chromium resp. G00gle Chr0m3. I use to have WordPress installed on my web space and maintaining the site with Iceweasel perhaps results in a frozen system, since the payload increases dramatically while editing posts. Even to leave it in the background a payload of 25% and more will be produced on a 3Ghz CPU / 3 GB RAM. Minimizing the window will help but after restoring the payload increases again. Taking action like inserting a picture or even saving is really a matter of time with Iceweasel + WordPress. Its annoying to work with and I saw that chromium has a much leaner footprint not only while working with WordPress. Also you don't need Xulrunner anymore (I guess thats the malefactor).

Cheers, Tom

[trulan]

The web browser is one place where you're not going to please everybody.  There are places where Iceweasel/Firefox fails, and there are places where Chrome/Chromium fails too.  Especially on older systems with 1Gb or less of ram, Chromium gets very difficult to use with more than about two tabs open.  It's my opinion that Iceweasel/Firefox is still the best option to get the best overall functionality on the widest range of systems, and as AVLinux endeavors to keep older machines usable, I'd prefer to keep Iceweasel as the default browser.  Just my 2 cents...

[GMaq]

Hi,

I agree with Trulan, Browsers are very much a personal preference and are readily available for end-users to download and install for themselves, several versions back I tried Opera as default and that wasn't a terribly popular move. I like Chrome OK and use it on my phone but Google is so pushy about running your life and a lot of people don't like the constant privacy concerns it presents. I agree Iceweasel isn't perfect but version 13 has some new features and runs pretty swiftly on my machines here (although I don't use wordpress) so I think I'll just leave that alone for now...

[Grooveschmied]

Convinced 

[Zawiedek]

I'm not sure if it helps with your issue, Grooveschmied, but switching from OpenJava to SunJava helped me to sort out several performance/freeze issues in Firefox, Openoffice and java-based game FreeCol on an Ubuntu 9.10 installation.

[Grooveschmied]

Thank you, Zawiedek.
I use Chrome instead and it works well. Maybe in AVL6 it will be an opportunity to switch to SunJava, if Iceweasel still have issues. After all I've learned that working with PHP will always consume a lot of resources.

[Zawiedek]

After all I've learned that working with PHP will always consume a lot of resources.

That should be only the case if you are running the server on your local machine. Otherwise, php does not put a strain on you as a client. That also counts for mysql.

I've also been working with Wordpress a lot and there has been implemented a lot of Javascript/Ajax stuff. These things are handled on the client-side.

But anyway, good you found a solution that is working for you!

[Grooveschmied]

Well, on my system Iceweasel has another opinion, obviously. I have no server running and no sql databse. I maintain the website online and cpu load increases dramatically when I use Iceweasel. There are not much plugins installed. With Chrome I see no problems like that on the same system and even more plugins. I guess, this is a Firefox feature in Ver. 12. I don't want to update Xulrunner since then I have to update a lot of other libs and I'm afraid that would endanger the stability of the whole system. Chrome is fine for me, even I hate it to have Google behind my back