Feedback on xombrero

[vasa1]

xombrero is one of the applications that you can install from the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+arc ... icial-apps.

xombrero is described as the minimalist's browser.

Has anyone tried it? Would you share your experience? While doing so, it would be great if you shared
information on your OS, its version, CPU and RAM specs
any specific links that you tested
your opinion on whether it could be shipped as Lubuntu's default browser
anything else!

[vasa1]

Information on OS, its version, CPU and RAM specs: Lubuntu 13.04; Core2Duo, 4GB RAM; integrated graphics. I have lubuntu restricted extras installed.

Sites tested: youtube.com, ubuntuforums.org, facebook.com, askubuntu.com, gmail.com

Note that I didn't set up anything in preparation for using xombrero. Just clicked on it from Main Menu > Internet as I would do for any other browser.

The minimalism is evident right away I think the "average" user will be quite at sea.

Anyway, I could view videos in YouTube flawlessly and move around in Ubuntu Forums.

But Facebook and any Stack Exchange site are problematic:
I could bring up Facebook's sign-in page, then my home page (or whatever it's called) and even open the Lubuntu Official page at which point the browser just freezes and crashes.
A bad things happen when I'm on any Stack Exchange site such as askubuntu.com or unix.stackexchange.com. The pages open quickly but after viewing a few questions and answers, the CPU usage rises and the pages become unresponsive.

I could log in to my gmail account and do stuff without any problem but it looks like xombrero doesn't store cookies by default. Looking at the terminal output (when xombrero is started from the command line) hints at that.

Overall, xombrero was quite quick on my machine but it seems to have problems with certain sites.

I took a brief look at xombrero's man page and it's clear that quite a few things can be customized although a degree of competence is expected from the user.

Edit: although one user had bbc.co.uk crash (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1177770), that site works for me.

[amjjawad]

xombrero is one of the applications that you can install from the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+arc ... icial-apps.

xombrero is described as the minimalist's browser.

Has anyone tried it? Would you share your experience? While doing so, it would be great if you shared
information on your OS, its version, CPU and RAM specs
any specific links that you tested
your opinion on whether it could be shipped as Lubuntu's default browser
anything else!

Hello vasa1 and thanks a lot for starting this topic/thread

http://amjjawad.blogspot.com/2013/05/te ... buntu.html

I have explained about my experience with xombrero

I just updated my signature so my machine details should be public now

I don't think this one should be shipped by default. I won't vote for it. However, instead of installing it via PPA, I think it is nice to have it on the repositories by default.

Overall speed was so slow for me. Firefox is much faster and same goes for Chromium.

Thanks

[amjjawad]

vasa1, you are 100% right and I don't think it is about the website we are using, I think there is something wrong with the browser? we need to do more tests. I guess I will do that later when I have some free time but can't right now.

I noticed that while I'm on askubuntu.com that either CPU1 or CPU2 is at 100% and it never go down unless I go back for example or click on other link.
I can hear clearly to the sound of the fan of my laptop and it does increase when one of the CPUs is at 100%

This is really odd and I don't know what is going on? this is suppose to be a lightweight browser!

Once I close the browser, CPU goes down!

[vasa1]

I'm giving xombrero a further look which means making sense of its man page. I've bookmarked https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero as well.
I've started populating ~/.xombrero.conf with simple things that may be useful like aliases. I'm also keeping security settings liberal for now until I understand a little more. It's quite possible that some of the entries are redundant or downright silly

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browser_mode = normal
alias = h,file:///home/vasa1/Documents/MyLinks.html
alias = y,http://youtube.com
alias = g,http://gmail.com
allow_insecure_content = 1
allow_insecure_scripts = 1
append_next = 1
color_visited_uris = 0
cookie_policy = accept
cookies_enabled = 1
download_dir = /home/vasa1/Desktop
download_notifications = 1
enable_localstorage = 1
external_editor = nano
gui_mode = classic

BTW, xombrero doesn't gag on Launchpad but I didn't try anything fancy like filing a bug.

BTW, xombrero seems to have quite some active support:
There's a forum --- https://opensource.conformal.com/fluxbb ... m.php?id=8
And a page for bugs --- https://opensource.conformal.com/flyspr ... &pagenum=1