Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase
On 22/9/25 7:50 am, Linux User #330250 wrote:
I perfectly get that older machines, like any Power Mac G4 with maxed
out "only" 1.5 or 2 GB of memory will have issues with some software
(Firefox) that need a lot of memory (especially when more tabs are
opened).
Maybe it's because I limit my tabs. But on PPC I find Firefox doesn't
need too much ram. For example, I have a Xenial install with an older
Firefox, version 47 or something. Would have about 40 tabs or so. It
loads fast. It would usually use up 700MB. Now, while that is running, I
can chroot into Debian and load up Firefox 138. Funny to load the latest
Firefox on an older Ubuntu but it works. And yes, the older Fox is 32
bit running in 32 bit userspace, but the newer Fox is 64 bit running in
the same userspace. Kernel is 64 bit. I keep it down to ten tabs and
even then it would be more CPU intensive. I check memory and both would
only take up about 1.5GB ram. I have 8GB in my machine. It's not even
breaking the 32 bit barrier. The only time I broke the 32 bit barrier
was when I loaded a debug build of Firefox into GDB and watched it soak
up 6GB ram.
Now for most of my use I use Firefox on a Lenovo laptop. It's showing
it's age as it has max 12GB ram. Within ten minutes or 30 minutes
mostly, it has filled up all the RAM. And after looking at ten sites I
need to quit it before it freezes the OS. If you let it, Firefox will
freeze Linux, and if you don't have an SSD then God help you! LOL. You
can forget REISUB, it's already too late. Now, that's likely because I
have four windows with 100 tabs. That's my fault, it was an accident. I
am not tempted to restore those tabs for fun on my PPC Linux. :-D
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My regards,
Damien Stewart.
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