Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

[Michael Butash]

I do this often, mostly because either/or are so unstable, general 
internet use tends to crash it pretty often.

I use a voip service (switch.co), that I cannot have crash randomly with 
some stupid video that decides to blast flash stupidity or invasive 
script at it tends to.  Therefore I install the chrome app on both, but 
launch some apps under chrome, while I use chromium for general internet 
stuff so if it does pop, I don't lose a call.  Especially when just 
downloading something tends to crash Chromium these days.

Biggest issue I find is that I now have 3 profiles, on each chrom*, that 
launch independent memory space for each tab, each liking to load a few 
hundred local libraries each, consuming obscene gobs of memory for 
each.  Suddenly between chrome AND chromium, chews up a good 12gb of ram 
at times with an factoral explosion of resources.  I had to increase my 
open file handler limits to some obscene limits due to its... 
consumption, and I still think it's the bain of my system evils.

Switch, hangouts, and other things like that are all gapps I'm now 
enslaved to, why I put 32gb of ram in my systems if at all possible.  
Chrom* doesn't seem to be intent on becoming any less piggish anytime soon.

I also had to recreate the "chrome apps" menu folder in the windows 
manager as syncing the apps with profiles, both import all 
extensions/apps automagically, recreating shortcuts, and being not good 
enough to tell me which browser the same apps on both represent to open 
them on only one.  I wish I could use only one...

-mb


On 06/01/2015 04:31 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> On my Linux Mint 17 system, the chromium browser was installed by default
> and it has seemed to work well for most things ... but I've been getting
> messages from Google that read: "This version of Chrome is no longer
> supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser."
>
> So is it safe and prudent to install the Chrome browser to replace
> chromium?  I seem to remember reading a while back that there were
> problems with running the Chrome browser on Linux.
>
> Please advise what to do.
>
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