[sf-lug] what's better than firefox?

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 08/13/2017 07:24 PM, jim wrote:
>
>     I'm running firefox 52.0.2 (64 bit) and terminal I/O
> is painfully slow and getting more so. Seems (from top
> output) that firefox is hogging the CPU.
>     Maybe there's a way to run  firefox  at a nice level
> of 10 or so, and maybe there's some other browser that
> is not a big CPU and RAM hog.
>
>     Anybody got advice?

         Well update your Firefox, mine is at release 55.0.
     If your resources are tight use Qupzilla which is a bit difficult to
figure out how to configure. but check the icon of horizontal line
on the right hand side of the navigation bar.
     If you want an old fashioned version look at Palemoon which looks
a lot like older Firefox.
     In terms of resources from most to least it goes Firefox. Palemoon, 
Qupzilla.

     I use all three.  Firefox for security things like bank account 
access, Palemoon and
Qupzilla for access to various entertaining things.

     Bobbie Sellers

>
> ----------------------------------
>
> # cat /etc/issue
> ubuntu 12.04.5
>
> root at jim-lap:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor    : 0
> vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
> cpu family    : 6
> model        : 58
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
> stepping    : 9
> microcode    : 0x12
> cpu MHz        : 2500.000
> cache size    : 3072 KB
>
> root at jim-lap:~# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
> Mem:       8094716    7425636     669080          0     853416 3964156
>
> # top | head
> top - 02:18:15 up 28 days, 22:16,  3 users,  load average: 0.91, 0.94, 
> 0.95
> Tasks: 190 total,   2 running, 188 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  4.5%us,  0.5%sy,  0.1%ni, 94.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi, 0.0%si,  
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   8094716k total,  7605548k used,   489168k free,   853420k buffers
> Swap:  8798204k total,     5376k used,  8792828k free,  3972336k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
>  6833 jim       20   0 3433m 966m  76m R   36 12.2   3350:44 firefox
>  1535 root      20   0  187m  55m  15m S    4  0.7 443:19.59 Xorg
>  2123 jim       20   0 1244m 111m  27m S    2  1.4 220:16.38 compiz
>
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