Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

[Michael Havens]

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 <michael at butash.net> 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 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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