On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 23:01 +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote: > > > 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? > > Also, what kind of web pages are you browsing, Van, and are you using > a > proper plugin such as uBO to filter ads and other junk that can use > an > incredible amount of resources? Ad-blockers can really help with > lower > end machines.
Yes, I was suspecting ads and other crud being run by firefox. Some web pages slow things down far more than others. I didn't know of uBO. Is it the best ad blocker? How do I install it? I keep gmail, twitter, and facebook tabs, one page from EIA, and one page from my own server open.
