[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> FWIW, at litl we are switching from a xulrunner-based brower to a
> chromium-based browser.  We are seeing a big performance improvement,
> plus it's making it easier for us to implement plugin isolation and
> better memory management (unloading pages which are not foregrounded,
> etc).
>
> YMMV, and it's been about 3 person-months of work, but I can suggest
> from experience that it may be worth it.

The two main issues with chromium is its upstreamability, which
becomes a problem for at least Fedora and Debian, and actually having
the resources to dedicated to it.

Peter