My first experience with *Chromium; possibly my last.

[KoopaScooper]

I installed Chromium (the open source version of chrome) to see how it would fare on my laptop, as it was on the Ubuntu Software Centre as one of the "recommended" applications. It was a 20MB download. Not much at all. After the install it takes up ~100MB. That's more than Firefox's 67.3MB.

When I started it up, I noticed it started a lot more faster than Firefox would ever...until I tried accessing something. It would be stuck at "Waiting for cache..." and freeze here for about 10 seconds. Firefox only freezes every 6 seconds if there's something complex on the page (stuffty processor,) but once it was done "preparing the cache," I was on the internet.

Loading web pages seems faster, only because everything, and I mean EVERY GODDAMN THING is cached, and if you have a slow drive (30MB/s read 14MB/s write here,) well you'll browse the internet slower than Internet Explorer.

So I went on some of my favorite websites. They seemed to load fast the first time around. Having multiple tabs open apparently hurts this processor to the point where the Desktop Manager closes for some forgeted up reason (possibly just Ubuntu being Ubuntu and me loving stuff up) when I have 4 or more tabs open at once. Not sure if it's my swapfile or something else.

Assured that it was my processor, I kept browsing. Speedtest with Chromium reported 10Mb/s while
Firefox reported 14Mb/s (promised speed from ISP.) Clearly one deals better with flash than the other, as even when I installed the flash plugin, it seemed that it didn't like flash, as when I ran a flash applet, every goddamn page would break after 4 seconds of it being open ("Aw snap!" error) until I reset the computer.
I'll probably never use it again, I have uninstalled it from my system and deleted the setup files. I would recommend this browser provided you have a fast drive to use it off of, and a semi-decent operating system or linux build. The actual Google Chrome is much faster than this hunk of stuff. Don't download it.

Hardware performed on:
Intel Pentium M (III class) 1.78GHz
1GB DDR2 533MHz
Intel i915GM Onboard Graphics (16MB)
16GB USB Flash Drive (30MB/s read, 14MB/s write)
Broadcom 4318 Wireless LAN a/b/g @ 36Mb/s on Mini-PCI
Up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10

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[Littledude]

Ubuntu loving sucks so you should assume running any program on it would suck.

[carolcat]

it screws up with only 4 tabs open?
i'd be dead with that. i usually have 6 tabs open.

[._maxwell23461_.]

You don't like chrome use it again friend update it blah blah blah, fireforgets is dumb,
Delete it

[KoopaScooper]

Ubuntu loving sucks so you should assume running any program on it would suck.

Blockland works fine. Emulating with VirtualBox works fine. Firefox works fine. Minecraft works fine.
It's not Ubuntu. Deal with it.

[Doomonkey]

Get Opera, takes up like 35 megabytes and doesn't suck.

[._maxwell23461_.]

Blockland runs on Ubuntu?

[Tom Gunn]

Perhaps an incorrect install?

In any case, sorry it doesn't please you.

[dkamm65]

Don't blame the software when your computer is a piece of stuff.

[Littledude]

You were also using Chromium, which is bound to be less stable than standard chrome.

Open Source stuff generally sucks in comparison to professional alternatives.

Get Opera, takes up like 35 megabytes and doesn't suck.

Opera always felt clunky and slow.

[KoopaScooper]

Get Opera, takes up like 35 megabytes and doesn't suck.

I'll try this next, I want a browser that doesn't freeze occasionally.

Blockland runs on Ubuntu?

With Wine installed, yes.

Perhaps an incorrect install?

In any case, sorry it doesn't please you.

Not very likely that it's an incorrect installation, I got it off the Software Center so it's not going to be installed wrong.

Don't blame the software when your computer is a piece of stuff.

Except most other things run fine.

You were also using Chromium, which is bound to be less stable than standard chrome.

Open Source stuff generally sucks in comparison to professional alternatives.

This could also be a reason, I'll try the official chrome later and see if I have this problem.

[ShadowsfeaR]

You were also using Chromium, which is bound to be less stable than standard chrome.

Open Source stuff generally sucks in comparison to professional alternatives.

I was thinking just this.

[Pentium]

Get Opera, takes up like 35 megabytes and doesn't suck.

This. I have Opera 11.60 running on a P2-400 with 256 megs of RAM, and it actually runs decently fast.

[dkamm65]

Except most other things run fine.

Irrelevant. You're blaming the software because your computer is unable to run it properly.

[KoopaScooper]

Irrelevant. You're blaming the software because your computer is unable to run it properly.

Well I would expect it would run "optimal" on a Pentium 3 class processor, as their requirements state.