[Swlug] Mint v Chromium

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 at 17:36, Rhys Sage via Swlug
<swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> Colin,  Chromium comes up in the available software online store but not Chrome. I think it's the same thing and just as buggy as the Windows version.

It isn't the same thing, and I have never had it crash the system.

Google (or your favourite search engine) will tell you how to install Chrome.

 I already have Firefox and I use that for some of the stuff I do - it
helps to separate some of my Google accounts. I use only work-related
Google stuff on Firefox. The general stuff I've been doing on
Chromium.
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> My problem with Chromium is that it seems to be behind a lot of system freezes. I'm not sure what goes on but the longest it has been between hard resets is 3 weeks when I use Chromium a lot.
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> Hibernation works well on Linux Mint. Unfortunately when Chromium is throwing wobblies it won't let me wake the laptop from hibernation within a sane amount of time so I end up having to do a hard reset, holding the power button down until the laptop powers off.

I thought you said hibernation failed when you were not running Chromium.

Colin