On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 08:54:05PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > On Dec 20 09:44:38, mlar...@nested.page wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I know the question keeps repeating here, > > > but is there a web browser that is at least usable? > > > > > > I switched from Firefox to Chrome about a year ago, > > > but it has become unbearably slow and hungry. > > > > > > On a machine with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz, > > > and 8GB of ram, about ten tabs make it ridiculously unresponsive. > > > > > > > That's a CPU released in 2008. Thirteen years ago. While I agree that > > browsers > > have become more bloated, I think the "ridiculously unreponsive" claim here > > is probably due to something else in this case. > > Is that considered slow by now? I honestly don't know.
yes > Beside chrome, everything runs smooth as an oiled cucumber; > kernel recompiles in a few minutes, no problem except the browser. > (Truth be told, I also happen to like these older Thinkpads.) > > Jan >
