Re: Firefox alternatives?

From	"Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date	2024-12-11 22:10 +0100
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On 12/11/24 15:08, Van Snyder 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?
>
I call this "memory leakage". I don't know if actual code bugs, or the 
sloppy way Firefox allocates and frees memory. As far as I know, all 
browsers suffer from this. If you find one which doesn't, let us know.

Paul

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Re: Firefox alternatives? "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2024-12-11 22:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-11 22:20 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 00:10 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 01:00 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-12-12 19:20 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 19:30 +0100
          Re: Firefox alternatives? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-12-12 23:20 +0100
            Re: Firefox alternatives? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-12-13 08:50 +0100
          Re: Firefox alternatives? jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-13 01:10 +0100
            Re: Firefox alternatives? George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-12-13 02:20 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2024-12-13 17:00 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-13 23:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Jan Claeys <lists@janc.be> - 2024-12-14 00:00 +0100
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