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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:47:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5644C2B0.10504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2333564.3Bv46BnijP@wstn>

On 12/11/2015 18:40, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 Nov 2015 20:46:45 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:07:20 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>>>> Is "www-client/chromium" good alternative to firefox?
>>>>
>>>> I much prefer it, but that's all it is, personal preference. Try it
>>>> and decide for yourself. It's a long emerge so you may want to try
>>>> with chrome first, it's a binary package so much faster to install.
>>>
>>> I was just checking out on other forums; chromium is an open source and
>>> not very well maintain. www-client/google-chrome suppose to be better.
>>
>> On what is that claim based? Chromium used the chrome source code with
>> the proprietary bits removed and the same versions of both are available
>> in portage.
> 
> ...and I'm for ever having to recompile chromium as it seems to change about 
> once a week. Not what you would call poorly supported.
> 


Well the OP did say that the info came from "other forums" and we know
how reliable those can be.

I'd trust my mother-in-law's opinion on the state of Chromium before I
trust $RANDOM_ARB_FORUM_ON_TEH_INTARWEBZ


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-11 18:38 [gentoo-user] Firefox-bin GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed thelma
2015-11-11 19:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-11-11 20:07   ` thelma
2015-11-11 20:46     ` Neil Bothwick
2015-11-12 16:40       ` Peter Humphrey
2015-11-12 16:47         ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2015-11-12 17:12           ` Neil Bothwick

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