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Steve Litt via plug on 29 Dec 2025 11:43:58 -0800
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Re: [PLUG] Recommendation: distro for an Athalon X2 CPU from 2010
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- From: Steve Litt via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Recommendation: distro for an Athalon X2 CPU from 2010
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:43:49 -0500
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Mike Leone said on Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:19:18 -0500
>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.
Chromium is a little less piggy than Firefox. Other than Chromium,
because HTML published on the web is such an error ridden mess,
different browsers choke on different things. I suggest Chromium when it
absolutely has to work, and one of the other browsers supplied by
Ubuntu for normal browsing.
By the way, every Troubleshooters.Com page published in the last 4
years had zero errors, zero warnings except for the fact that I use />
at the end of non-split tags instead of just >, and my pages are
reasonably responsive (visible on any sized screen). If everyone were
like me, browsers would be MUCH simpler.
SteveT
Steve Litt
http://444domains.com
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