Re: Firefox alternatives?

From	Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date	2024-12-12 22:50 +0100
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On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +0000, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
>> Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net 
>> <mailto: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.
> 
> Firefox 115.140esr (64-bit) from Debian. I don't like to install 
> software from other sources because it frequently results in a mess of 
> version incompatibilities.
> 
> Intel Core i3 530 that claims to run at 2.93 GHz, but /proc/cpuinfo 
> reports varying CPU clocks between 1.2 and 2.2 GHz, but all have the 
> same bogomips.
> 
> Gigabyte H55M-S2P motherboard.
> 
> Both RAM sockets have 4 GB installed, but dmidecode says only one is 
> working. Hmmm.
> 
> 
If you install and run fastfetch, what does that show for the RAM?

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Re: Firefox alternatives? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-12-12 13:30 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 22:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 23:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 23:20 +0100

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