V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) --- Well, it's come to this... I've been using Chromium in Slackware64-14.1 for quite a few years, but last October/November a new version came out that just refuses to run on my system. It crashes about 15 seconds after startup with "segmentation fault" error. I've spent quite a bit of time troubleshooting this. I run .txz SlackBuilds from Alien Bob's (+Eric Hameleers) repos. The last version that can run on my system is chromium-52.0.2743.82-x86_64-1alien. I thought maybe that I would wait a few more versions since this problem started to try it again. Well, today I installed the newest version (54.x) and experienced the exact same issue that I had with 53.x back in Oct/Nov. I even ran it with a brand new, vanilla chromium profile. No joy. So, starting today, I guess I'll be running Firefox as my primary browser. The ol' Chromium 52.x is getting too many warnings from websites regarding its age and security issues. I have my FF set up to look and behave very similarly to my Chromium. One thing that I can say in favor of FF... the font rendering is AWESOME compared to that of Chromium. Narrow fonts in FF are sharp/dark, easily readable; not so much in Chromium. Anyway, I'll miss Chromium, but it is what it is... --- Edited January 31, 2017 by V.T. Eric Layton 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I use them both interchangeably. My wife likes Firefox better so if I had to lose Chrome/Chromium it would be OK. Firefox seems to work better with Anti-Adblock Killer than Chrome does. I get fewer nags or blocked sites because I use Adblock Plus. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I also have better experience with Firefox than Chrome. I now only use Chrome for 2 local TV channel sites which use Flash, and it seems to get worse with each version. Currently 56.0.2924.76-1 ps. check out uBlock Origin for FF, best blocker I've tried. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 For me Chrome seems to run quicker than FF especially for videos. So I use it for watching vidoes and FF for everything else. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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