On 12/12/24 04:08, 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?
You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how many
RAMs and how big is your swap partition?
For alternatives to Firefox, you might want to try Vivaldi or Pale Moon
or Waterfox, and, there is SeaMonkey. Also available, is Librewolf.
I have no experience of Waterfox or Librewolf, but, they are apparently
regarded as some, as faster than firefox, and Librewolf is supposed to
be superior, in terms of privacy protections.
I have and use SeaMonkey and Vivaldi, and, when I have problems with
Firefox, I also run the browser named "Web', which, I believe, is the
current version of Epiphany. When Firefox freezes, or, I am wanting to
otherwise access things without the cookies in Firefox, depending on
what I want to do, I run "Web"
It all depends on what you want to accomplish.
I am currently running about 139 windows of Firefox, each with multiple
tabs.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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