¶ Chromium

Chromium is the open source web browser project that forms the base of Google Chrome.

I worked on the browser for the Google Summer of Code 2009. I have since gained commit rights and continue to make contributions.

The contents of this page is outdated. Please see

• developers for information on the browser
• TheresSomethingOnMyArm for details on my BeagleBoard and ARM work
• SummerOfCode2009 for a summary of my Summer of Code work

¶ Benchmarks

When I first noticed the Chromium Linux port had a UI, I gave it a go and compared some numbers to Firefox.

screenshot-1 screenshot-2 screenshot-3

For the tests below, these are the versions I used:

¶ Firefox

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020519 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.6

• Greasemonkey enabled, one script active
• Adblock
• Gears
• itsalltext
• Firebug 1.3.2: console: off, net: off, script: off.

¶ Chromium

r10438 form SVN, gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-3ubuntu5) 4.3.3, Jaunty amd64

chromium-0

¶ Speed

Sunspider

Firefox:

• 5166.4ms +/- 2.9%
• bqntkf

Chromium:

• 1977.8ms +/- 2.9%
• cmmfun

¶ Memory

Output of ps_mem.py.

¶ Empty page (fresh startup)

 21.8 MiB +   8.0 MiB =  29.9 MiB       chrome (2)
 76.4 MiB +   1.4 MiB =  77.8 MiB       firefox

¶ After loading Gmail

 53.4 MiB +   9.1 MiB =  62.5 MiB       chrome (2)
 157.0 MiB +   1.6 MiB = 158.6 MiB      firefox