I’m sure we’ve all seen youtube videos or just know about e-waste, meaning the increase demands in minimum requirements to install any modern OS (side note: GhostBSD installer flat out shut me down because I can’t provide 4G RAM, unacceptable). (side side note: rethink expectations of “modern” OS) before we shell out for a new computer.
I’m in a situation where my hardware isn’t so bad and it can run minimal, and I am doing so. Yet bare necessities like a web browser choke up. Sure, pick a different web browser, something light. It comes with a trade off of functionality.
Yes, Linux is just a kernel. Yes we can pick and choose which distro to daily drive. After that we are still at the mercy of bloated software that we need to use day to day and that for me puts a stain on my effort to go FOSS.
Didn’t say it’ll stop me
EDIT: looking at you Firefox. 1G of ram with 1 tab no extentions??
web browsers are huge
it’s like another operating system on top of the system
you’ve multiple engines running at the same time
(Css,V8,Rendering,Audio,Webgl,Webassembly jit,Other process)
they load by default no matter empty tab or not
the solution to this new web browser build from scratch and highly optimized
that initialize each components and execute only when needed
plus use most fastest low level API cross-platform.
linux won’t save ewaste but new generation of developers
with unix mindset would
sigh yeah I kind of already knew that, I’m just glad you pointed it out. It is what it is. I’m just not happy that every web browser I try seems to crash. Maybe I’ll pick up a newspaper
A gigabyte of memory for Firefox with only one tab open sounds very high. Perhaps it is something odd with that particular Web site. From Firefox, maybe check the following:
about:processes
I would recommend trying add-on / extension uBlock Origin. You will then probably find that memory usage drops significantly because Firefox is not downloading and running all the adware / spyware/ malware / crapware that you did not want.
Speaking about browser memory, not ram but disk usage..
I mainly use Firefox as default browser.
I noticed Firefox is using alot of disk space for storing temporary files. Mostly when watching some Twitch live stream for more then some hours I notice hard disk space is decreasing for more then 1gb.
Then I delete Firefox temporary files and cache, and everything come back to normality.
I find this a bit annoying, what can I do for prevent so aggressive caching?
I do not live stream content, but I have a suggestion.
From Firefox, enter the following:
about:cache
I am guessing that the live stream content is going to be counted in the “disk” section of “Network Cache Storage Service”.
For “Storage disk location”, mine shows “none, only stored in memory”.
I think disk caching is disabled because I am using Arkenfox hardening on Firefox.
You can certainly selectively disable disk caching in “about:config”, but I highly recommend Arkenfox.
If you have sufficient free memory, and are more concerned with limiting disk writes, disabling disk caching may solve the live stream content filling the disk or wearing out the SSD.
