Firefox eating all RAM on Ubuntu24.04

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 13 14:17:54 UTC 2024


On Tue, 2024-08-13 at 14:25 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> I gave up on Firefox a little while ago after having similar problems,
> I fear it is past its sell-by date.  My workaround is to grudgingly
> admit that at last MS have some decent s/w in the guise of Edge, and
> also VSCode which is the best code editor I have ever used.

Hi,

in terms of privacy as well as in RAM/CPU resource usage I'm not very
picke when running web browser on my Linux tower PC. It's different for
my iPads, on an old iPad, even with a jailbreak, there isn't any other
choice than minimizing using a web browser and on a new iPad getting rid
of Chrome, Google, Edge and Opera is required, since e.g. the history of
some is linked with the users identity and shared with Google or
Microsoft. On iPads Firefox can't be used with add blockers or other
add-ons, while Safari can be used with similar add-ons.  

Bzw. Red App on the iPad 2 is from 2023, but suffers from the same
underlying webkitthingy as all the way older browsers do and Cydia does
only provide the crappiest browser I've seen in my live.

https://imgur.com/ipads-2024-08-12-Fe7S3zQ

Since I cleaned up my iPads as well as my Linux browser some days ago
and while I banned Edge and Co from my iPad, but kept them on my Linux
PC, here's my "advice" ;).

Consider to take a look at either something degoogled chromiumthingy
based or at something hardcore Linux freakish.

Resource hungry, but probably with better privacy and still more modern
than the Foxish engines is the Googelish Vivaldi.

Foxish, but maybe better than the Fox:
FireDragon (not Floorp)
LibreWolf
IceCat

Probably less resource hungry, but Linux freakish:

Luakit

Again, on my Linux tower PC I tend to use browser such as Waterfox
(Firefox) and Chrome (even Edge stable is installed), but on my iPads I
already try to get accustomed to Vivaldi and that alike. I like Falkon,
too.

FWIW, I guess apart of Luakit, Dillo and qutebrowser are lighteight,
less resource hungry, but also quite freakish, too. I have those browser
installed, but I only start Luakit with a weather report URL and don't
use it for anything else.

Regards,
Ralf



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