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'. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > 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@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. >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: