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Re: Firefox alternatives?

From debian-user@howorth.org.uk
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date 2024-12-12 13:30 +0100
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Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute
> or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19
> processes running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used.
> When I kill Firefox and restart, things go back to normal for a few
> hours.
> 
> What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend?

FF used to behave like that for me, but the current ESR release from
Mozilla no longer does that. You haven't said what version of FF you're
using, or anything about your hardware or software environment. So it's
pretty difficult to say anything else.

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