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Re: Firefox alternatives?



On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 20:39 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, 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?


If you're still running Debian 12.5 - you can check by listing the contents of /etc/debian_version
which should read 12.8 - update Debian to the current version.

Debian 12.6. There's a KDE widget running that periodically reminds me of available updates, but I guess it's not paying attention well enough. I'll run "apt update."

Don't leave Firefox running for days with tabs open - close it periodically?

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If I close the windows manually, firefox forgets what it was doing, so I kill it periodically. Maybe more frequently than I have been doing.

Swap 10% used seems very high. You're running the firefox-esr version supplied in Debian stable?

Using the version from Debian stable.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater
(amacater@debian.org)



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