Browser replacement? (Solved, for now!)

[Bierhundt]

hello Bierhundt and everyone
for firefox and seamonkey look into "about:memory" address bar location
Show memory reports "Measure"
and in seamonkey I play with clicking Free memory "Minimize memory usage" does it do anything for You?

I'll have to get back to you on that. What is it supposed to do?

[Bierhundt]

Please try qupzilla-appimage 2.2.6 from our test repo if you're running 64-bit. It is greatly improved from the old 1.8.9. If you must stick with 32-bit, at least try the 2.1.2 version from our test repo, though I'm inclined to move both of those to main.

Yes, this laptop is 64-bit, but I'll have to see if the test repos are activated. If not, that will be a new thread, so keep an eye out in a couple of days. We have been snowed in since Friday, so we have to see if we can make it into town for some food tomorrow.

[Artim]

WHY in heck to web sites have to design pages with RAM-chewing stuff anyway? Why should people be forced to upgrade otherwise perfectly good hardware just to make web browsing possible?

RAWR!

#MakeTheWebHTMLagain

[stsoh]

find a suitable ad-blocker addon for your browser. all webs r full of adverts, they r all memories hunger beasts, block them. free memory for your browsing. i'm using firefox, first thing i do is add-on ublocker.

[Stevo]

Please try qupzilla-appimage 2.2.6 from our test repo if you're running 64-bit. It is greatly improved from the old 1.8.9. If you must stick with 32-bit, at least try the 2.1.2 version from our test repo, though I'm inclined to move both of those to main.

Yes, this laptop is 64-bit, but I'll have to see if the test repos are activated. If not, that will be a new thread, so keep an eye out in a couple of days. We have been snowed in since Friday, so we have to see if we can make it into town for some food tomorrow.

We are moving qupzilla 2.1.2 and qupzilla-appimage 2.2.6 to main, so you won't need the test repo. But the easy way to install something from our test repo is to use the "Full App Catalog" choice in MX Package Installer and choose the test repo. We came up with the easy GUI to make test packages very simple to install for the noobs, though I know you prefer the CLI. In the CLI case, just remove the comment hash mark from in front of the test repo URL.

[Buck Fankers]

find a suitable ad-blocker addon for your browser. all webs r full of adverts, they r all memories hunger beasts, block them.

Another option is [adguard] to just use these two DNS addresses bellow, put them into your router settings, or into every computer:

176.103.130.130
176.103.130.131

https://kb.adguard.com/en/dns/setup-guide#router

[eltuno]

WHY in heck to web sites have to design pages with RAM-chewing stuff anyway? Why should people be forced to upgrade otherwise perfectly good hardware just to make web browsing possible?

RAWR!

#MakeTheWebHTMLagain

that's because they need to believe in "progress", well only until they will choke from it.

[Bierhundt]

Please try qupzilla-appimage 2.2.6 from our test repo if you're running 64-bit. It is greatly improved from the old 1.8.9. If you must stick with 32-bit, at least try the 2.1.2 version from our test repo, though I'm inclined to move both of those to main.

Yes, this laptop is 64-bit, but I'll have to see if the test repos are activated. If not, that will be a new thread, so keep an eye out in a couple of days. We have been snowed in since Friday, so we have to see if we can make it into town for some food tomorrow.

We are moving qupzilla 2.1.2 and qupzilla-appimage 2.2.6 to main, so you won't need the test repo. But the easy way to install something from our test repo is to use the "Full App Catalog" choice in MX Package Installer and choose the test repo. We came up with the easy GUI to make test packages very simple to install for the noobs, though I know you prefer the CLI. In the CLI case, just remove the comment hash mark from in front of the test repo URL.

I'll maybe download it for a backup browser, but the way it didn't work well for me before, I will keep using Seamonkey for now! I never did remove it, so I'll have to purge it and start over with the new one. THX

[Stevo]

I have qupzilla-appimage conflict with and replace the standard qupzilla, so installing it removes qupzilla automatically.

[Artim]

Seamonkey is the default browser in several "lightweight" distros, and for good reason! It does what both Thunderbird and Firefox do, but quickly and with resurce demands.