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Re: Firefox alternatives?

From David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date 2024-12-12 06:30 +0100
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On 12/11/24 12:08, 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?


My current daily driver is a Dell PowerEdge T30 with a Xeon E3-1225 v5 
processor, 2 @ 8 GB ECC RAM in dual channel mode, and an Intel SSD 520 
Series 60 GB:

2024-12-11 21:21:18 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version; uname -a; dpkg-query --show xfce4; dpkg-query 
--show firefox-esr
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03) 
x86_64 GNU/Linux
xfce4	4.16
firefox-esr	128.5.0esr-1~deb11u1


The desktop usage experience is more than satisfactory.


I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox.  I typically enable 
only enough JavaScript to get a site working.  YouTube recently changed 
their site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com is 
blocked.  When I enabled google.com, Firefox became very sluggish.


The problem is not Firefox, the problem is corporations that want to 
monetize WWW users via JavaScript.


David

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Re: Firefox alternatives? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-12 06:30 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-12 06:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 10:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 13:20 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-12-12 15:30 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-12 16:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-12-12 18:50 +0100

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