On Apr 15, 2015 1:36 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael@butash.net> wrote:

On 04/15/2015 12:48 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:

I have seen both Chrome and Chromium go ape s#&$ on my system.  While it does happen very occasionally on other systems, my old netbook that only runs 32bit is damn near unusable with either browser... I have had to resort to xombrero.

And yes, Google does EVERYTHING in Linux.  They use Ubuntu as the corporate standard in house.

I've heard as much, but their products continue to be highly unstable under linux, so I somewhat doubt this.  It's been shite for me since early 30's of releases, and just gets worse now.

But sometimes I think they suffer from the same problem as Sun used to... they are so used to nearly inexhaustible pockets, they forget that sometimes people have old, small machines.

This is 4000k proc, 32gb of ddr3, and ssd's - nothing slouch about this system, and yet some software, like chrom* makes this thing behave like windoze me at times, like just about any flipping compositor.  Big or little, their software is proving, microsoft-like, and disturbing it can make linux freak out still this bad.

Case in point, vmware refuses to launch their view client for work stuff, I can't even launch firefox to avoid chrome stupidity now until I kill every google process and/or restart to flush everything.   Here I am rebooting to make it sane again for the moment.  :\

Sadly I find using mozilla isn't fully sufficient for as much integration around various google-app integrated things I rely on now, I'm starting to feel that same m$-ish lock-in.  Sub-par software handling of most of my workflow under linux that perhaps I need to rethink dependence on them and chrome as an application server.

Kevin

Thanks for the comments!
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