Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

[Michael Butash]

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'.