>> I wouldn't know since I use XFCE4 everywhere, but the desktop
>> environment only has some impact. When it comes to Firefox, the main
>> issue is Firefox itself and the pages you visit.
>
> I had trouble with Firefox in the past on Windows 7,
> I had to change to Chrome then. Surprisingly,
> now Firefox is behaving relatively well.
>
> I thought I would not have the same problem changing from Windows to Debian.
I didn't mean to blame Firefox specifically. It's just that nowadays
the simplest web-page showing you a 10-line message can't resist
connecting to about 100 different web sites and download a health number
of MB of images and other crap.
It's just as painful with any other browser (either because they
support all the needed feature, so they eat up all the available RAM of
my poor laptop, or because they don't support all those features, so
they're slim and efficient but the web-page doesn't display properly).
Stefan
