On Mon, 2025-08-18 at 16:44 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > 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).
I have plenty of RAM. The GKrellM "Mem" pointer is never past about 1/4 full. It seems like Firefox has figured out a way to sabotage KDE. Maybe I'll look for an antique Firefox.
