"A. Dumas"  wrote in message
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> druck wrote, on 07-05-2019 21:22:
>> Excessive CPU and especially memory usage, is the reason Chromium is now
>> the default browser on the Pi. I'd swapped for the same reasons quite a
>> while before.
>
>
> Well, I'm not sure how much of that is inherently slower Firefox than
> Chromium. My guess is not much; point is mainly, I think, that the
> foundation spent time & effort optimising Chromium for Raspberry Pi (after
> they switched from Epiphany) and no such effort has gone into Firefox.
> Where optimising probably means hooking into proprietary GPU APIs.
>
> E.g. see this old article about Epiphany:
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/web-browser-released/


It's a shame that Chromium doesn't (as far as I know) read JSON files of
bookmarks/favourites. I keep a master copy of bookmarked sites on my main
PC, and then export this to other computers and import it into each one's
Firefox. The import process that is offered with browsers tends to assume
that it is a one-off during-installation process rather than something that
you do every few days/weeks as you bookmark new sites.

A lot of the online sync mechanisms for bookmarks require you to create an
account, and then allow any computer to add/delete links, which gives the
risk of accidentally deleting a link and having that deletion immediately
propagate to all computers that use that online account.

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