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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 10:12:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2880606.x63doxVrfG@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1956085.ouAtmF7q5X@dell_xps>

On Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:16:10 GMT Mick wrote:

> I chose Chromium because I understood Google-Chrome to have some settings/
> code, which is meant to link Google services with a user's footprint even
> after you have logged out of all Google services.
> 
> What I found with Chromium is that it varies considerably on the amount of
> RAM consumed between versions, so it is a matter of guessing if 4G of RAM
> would be adequate to support > -j1.

I seem to remember chrome pulling a few dependencies that chromium doesn't.

The main reason I've ditched chrome and chromium altogether is that they 
insist on redirecting me to their mobile site - and this is a 27-inch screen! 
But I'm also uncomfortable with the privacy concerns such as you mention.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-04  7:35 [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium Mick
2018-12-04  8:06 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-12-04  8:47   ` Mick
2018-12-04  9:04     ` Raffaele Belardi
2018-12-04  9:21     ` Alexander Kapshuk
2018-12-04 18:42 ` Jack
2018-12-04 19:13   ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-04 19:23     ` Jack
2018-12-04 20:41       ` Mick
2018-12-05  1:36         ` Adam Carter
2018-12-05  3:26           ` Jack
2018-12-05  9:16             ` Mick
2018-12-05 10:12               ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2018-12-05 11:11                 ` Mick
2018-12-06 10:35                   ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-07 10:14                     ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-07 10:17                       ` Andreas Fink
2018-12-07 10:48                         ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-07 15:01                           ` Rich Freeman
2018-12-07 16:42                             ` Peter Humphrey
2018-12-04 20:57       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-12-04 21:10         ` Mick
2018-12-04 23:19           ` Neil Bothwick

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