On 04/02 08:23, Martin Vaeth wrote: > tu...@posteo.de <tu...@posteo.de> wrote: > > On 04/02 05:41, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> It seems currently that mozilla, google, and apple are the only > >> oranganizations with enough resources to maintain full browsers, > >> and any forks of their browsers which diverge more than a patchset > >> of essentially fixed size are doomed to fail for this very reason. > > > > ...and if after all that (at least) firefox gets so bulky and has such > > a hugh memory footprint that (on a multitasking OS) no other > > reasonable "powerful" application will multitask with it (or your > > machine goes swapping) and if mozilla itsself walks down an at least > > questionable way...then... > > What? > > It's the way it is whether you like it or not. > > > In the moment I cannot use firefox - regardless how > > advanced/secure/modern/or what it is. It does not fit into > > my working environment - it is to huge. > > The memory footprint of the main system with firefox is here > about 1GB. So if you have another memory hungry application running > (like emerging gcc in the background) you will need at least 2GB. > I guess 2GB RAM is about the limit to have a usable system, nowadays. > Working with 2GB and a dual core is possible with current gentoo > and firefox without too many restrictions, but of course it is much > more fun with 8GB and i3, which is probably about the smallest > desktop machine which you get nowadays (if you buy a new one). > >
I found an interesting thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7zfopp/howto_geek_recommends_against_using_waterfox_pale/ Cheers Meino
