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Re: Firefox alternatives?

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On 13/12/24 05:41, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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)
> ..............
> 
In checking, using the command
sudo lshw -c memory
shows what memory is in each slot

I am wondering what that shows for your computer, and, whether that 
would show the RAM card for one of your slots to be defective (by 
showing the slot as empty, I presume).

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............

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