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[netbookjohn]

Hi guys.

For those of you with Netbooks, I'm sure you most of you will have received the device  with FIreFox as 
your default browser.

Firefox is a great browser and it renders web pages great but it's not the quickest browser, especially for 
netbooks with lower processing power then desktops.

If you want a little extra speed then check out Chrome or Opera.

Opera has improved significantly in the latest version and it's blistering quick.

Cheers
John M

[Mad Penguin]

Caveat;

I too have become a Chrome fan (Opera not so) , however have spent most of today swearing at Google. They have a *massive* memory leak in all the current versions of Chrome, at least the ones running on Linux. (not tried Windows .. obviously)

If you want to confirm this for yourself, visit the Google visualisations /charts demos and find the "Gauge" demo .. then press the up/down buttons for 3-4 mins .. if you watch "top" on a second Window, it won't be long before that process crosses the 1G memory usage boundary.

(it happens on my new application, spent half a day trying to find the leak in my code .. works perfectly on FF)

[kirrus]

Work netbook, not allowed to use Chrome yet.. stuck with firefox for the moment. (Need nagios plugin for firefox)

[terrorist16]

I still have trouble trying to install Chrome.

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Install Google Chrome in what?... We'll need a bit more information, as it's in 'netbooks' I'm guessing an Asus EeePC or Asus Aspire One?... Which distro?