Re: [PLUG] Firefox 105 is unusable for me

[jeffv via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 9/27/22 23:04, JP Vossen via plug wrote:

> thought about the Snap, and might still mess with it, but that seems 
> like it might be even worse, and I'm not sure what effect it might have 
> on my profile (and gazillion tabs).

I'm having some really annoying problems with swap, generally involving 
Thunderbird, FF, and Epiphany (Web). That said, to address the tab 
issue, there's an addon called Panorama Tab Groups. This group of 
extensions *might* save memory by grouping tabs. I like it because it 
separates tabs by my intention for them. The only problem is that when 
FF updates, it loses the grouping. Grumble. It's a fork of a different one.

As for swap, I lowered it from 60 (default) to 40 and swap stopped going 
to 96%. It's not the genesis of the problem, but it helps. [Xubuntu]



Also spent some time looking into browsers. In comparative tests, the 
'best' browsers didn't use that much less than the worst ones. To my 
horror, MS Edge was recommended by several articles.

FF is my main browser because of the flexibility/addons/securitah. Web 
runs the blog (insecure enough to log into Google). I'm trying out 
Falkon for impromptu surfing. Ungoogled Chromium is for sites that just 
won't let me in with my standard security. Falkon's behaving well, 
mostly.Sometimes it won't display things. I've tried most of them. Even 
Edge! [wrk only, Win 10]

ymwv
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