Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

[Brian Cluff]

I wonder if some of these addons are the real problem.  I run no addons 
what so ever and my Chome and Chromium are rock solid.  The most I see 
is very rarely I see something about flash crashing, but that's probably 
less than once a week.  I also tend to leave browser windows open for 
weeks at a time with lots of tabs with no ill effects.

Brian Cluff

On 06/01/2015 11:14 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I'm pretty abusive on my system as I do what I consider well more than
> most with it, but honestly, I don't see it should be an issue with the
> latest i7 proc and loaded with memory, if they build it to scale
> properly.  Mine simply works, until it comes unglued, which seems to be
> more and more often, almost at least once a day, usually more.
>
> Weird part is I do limit extensively what plugins and scripts run,
> exactly to limit this, and websites doing nefarious things, this just
> seems like systemically buggy with the browser.  Adblock, scriptsafe are
> staples, which has always sufficed to keep it on a short leash.
>
> Because it does tend to be unstable, and ubuntu to boot, I tend to watch
> htop constantly on a spare monitor (joy of having 5 currently), and will
> see things like pepper-flash kick off, go ape, and slam my system until
> I kill -9 it.  Flash sucks.  Thusly I recently decided to go flash-free,
> and any site still lame enough to use it can bite me.  This helped, but
> still rampantly goes batty.
>
> As mentioned, the worst part is with my setup, with an extensive number
> of tabs as I normally keep open, tends to consume somewhere in the
> neighborhood of 250k file handlers between unix sockets and actual files
> (mostly shared libs).  At first I thought his was a bug, then began
> doing some statistical analysis of the situation, browsers
> (chrome|chromium) x profiles (3x for personal, work and work) x tabs
> (lots) x libs+sockets each (manyyyy).  All I can think is "wow, this is
> a highly inefficient piece of shit".
>
> Then I think back to old firefox circa 2005, single instantiated memory
> space for all tabs being not that cool either, buggy, crashy, but that
> was also under windoze, part of what drove me to linux.  Before bloated
> window managers, compositing, gpu weirdness, etc, it worked 20x better
> than windoze, then chrome came along and blew it away.  At the cost of
> memory, but it never used to be this horribly random and buggy to where
> memory was a small price for hyper usage.
>
> I don't know, perhaps I really am just abusing the system, but it works
> great, until it doesn't.  Lately it just reminds me of the dark days of
> windoze 98/me crashing or needing reboot every few days with not even
> that much abuse.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 06/01/2015 08:23 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> Michael, Chrome never  crashes on me. I used chromium before and it
>> too never crashed. Maybe I don't do as intensive things as you.
>>
>> (I don't know if 'never' is as accurate as 'very rarely'.
>
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