Message-ID: <699f6b7a@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <10msg39$3vqvf$6@dont-email.me> <10mtclh$a68a$11@dont-email.me> <10mvhtv$11t4u$1@dont-email.me> <10n1f4j$1ljem$1@dont-email.me> <10n1pot$u3en$1@news1.tnib.de> <10njjjk$3kulp$2@dont-email.me> <10njris$rk1a$1@news1.tnib.de> <10nk4io$3qvpn$5@dont-email.me> <10nk6rk$slp6$1@news1.tnib.de> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 26 Feb 2026 07:36:58 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 25 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82269 Marc Haber wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>Indeed. But I suspect a ground up rewrite of Firefox et al would vastly >>improve its performance. > > Maybe, but since noone is working on that, it's moot to think about > it. No, there is a team, now funded by the Linux Foundation, working on exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_browser_engine > The opposite is reality: We had more browser engines in the market > five years ago than we had today. Well my end of the "market" is dominated by Dillo, which I use for most of my web browsing. Though when I do have to use Firefox it's mostly on systems with 2GB RAM, so that's not impossible either. Blocking lots of the useless (except to people spying on you) Javascript junk with NoScript certainly helps. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#