The mess that is 'default browser'

[Bret Busby]

On 10/11/2021, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 19:21:58 +0000
> Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 11:11:41AM -0800, rikona wrote:
>> > I do many different things in parallel, and usually have 100+ pages
>> > open at one time [around 200 open now :-) ] - way too many for a
>> > single browser.
>>
>> I must be imagining the 574 tabs I currently have open across 7
>> windows in a single Firefox instance. :-)
>
> Interesting. On my older box, with 8G mem, on which I set up my way of
> working, I was never able to do anywhere near that number in FF. I'll
> try that on my newer box. Thanks for the heads-up.
>
> I have different proxies, different rules, different fonts/screens,
> vpns, and different addons set up in different browsers, so there's
> quite a bit more customization done too. Since I use browser bookmarks
> only a few % of the time, having a gazillion bookmarks is of very
> little use to me. I've carried my gazillion FF BMs along over many
> upgrades, and I probably use only 1 or 2 every week or two. For sites I
> do revisit [stores, fin, etc] I use a password manager, click, I'm in -
> works on multiple devices too. Much less tracking ability as well so
> more privacy. Adds to the flexibility with very few downsides. Even if I
> could get 2500 tabs in FF, I'd probably still use multiple browsers.
> :-) We each find ways that work well for us and this may be a bit
> different from what many folks do. But, I'm always interested in ways
> to deal with lots of stuff, so it's nice to hear how others do it.
>

One thing that you might want to try, depending on your processing
power and RAM capacity, is to have one web browser, eg firefox, with
javascript enabled, and another web browser, eg seamonkey, with
scripting disabled, using the former only for web sites for which you
must have the scripting, eg, internet banking, or, if you use it,
weather underground weather observations, or, something like
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
and the latter, for web sites that do not require scripting.

In minimising client side processing (client side processing being a
demonstration of incompetent and malicious web developers), I have had
around 140 seamonkey browser windows open, with many tabs in each
window, with no scripting, and a few firefox windows open, on my i7
computer with 32GB RAM, and, on my i5 computer with 16GB RAM, about
half the equivalent respective browser windows open, each without any
significant problems. Until the scripting starts crashing things, but,
that is due to the scripting, as it happens regardless of how much is
open.

The only problem with all that open, is when I try to run videos,
which tend to fail after about the first six minutes, but, that has
been happening in the versions  after 16.04, even if I have only the
video player (currently, I believe the least resource demanding one,
is celluloid) open.

After 16.04, the operating system has got increasingly slower and clogged up.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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