On 8/17/25 4:28 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
On Mon, 2025-08-18 at 05:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
Did the original poster ever reply to the question/suggestion as to
whether he had tried a Firefox fork, such as Midori and/or LibreWolf?
I haven't tried another Firefox fork. I'm using chromium with no
crashes — so far. But it doesn't respect the KDE "window behavior"
settings, such as "double click" in the title bar to "shade" — roll up
like an old-fashioned window shade — or right-click bringing up a menu
so I can move the window to a different work space. I liked Firefox
better, except for the part about it (apparently) crashing my system a
few times every day.
May be completely irrelevant, but I installed Trixie on an 11-year old
MacBook this past weekend, that has a decent-sized platter drive and 4
GB RAM. I logged into KDE Plasma, and fired up Firefox, which did fine,
until I went to a site with a lot of ads, etc (whatfinger.com); then my
whole system froze. It still showed signs of life (I didn't try ssh'ing
to it), and in fits and starts, was able to kill Firefox, and regain
control.
On a lark, because of the low-ish amount of RAM, I logged out of KDE,
and logged into XFCE4. I was able to use the laptop the rest of the
weekend without any problem whatsoever (except the general sluggishness
of running on a platter drive).
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