Re: [PLUG] Recommendation: distro for an Athalon X2 CPU from 2010

[Mike Leone via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM Steve Litt via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

> My opinion: Your problem isn't your distro or desktop environment.
> Lubuntu uses the superior and lightweight LXDE desktop. Firefox,
> however is a ravenous resource hog. Piggier even than Chromium. I
> suggest you find a more lightweight browser than Firefox, and keep
> using Lubuntu.

Yeah, I figured, when i launched Firefox, without doing anything, and
htop was showing me at 63% memory usage and climbing, before I even
opened any tabs or loaded any extensions ...

Ideally, I want Firefox so it would use the extension for my
1Password. I mean, there's a Linux client, I suppose I could look up
the password that way, and copy and paste, rather than have the
extension just fill it in for me ...

Got a recommendation for a decent web browser to use with Lubuntu? As
I say, mostly I'm going to be accessing the web interfaces of docker
containers running on my local NAS, and my GMail. This hardware is too
old to be good for much else. For me, it's going to be a glorified
netbook, more than anything else. I plan to use it from my living
room, in between watching actual media.
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