Hi! I had the same problem with Opera. I tried this package https://gpo.zugaina.org/www-plugins/opera-ffmpeg-codecs . It didn't work. Finally I switched to Firefox or Brave.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:46 AM Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:25:58 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > In my situation is is not so much about speed but not bringing the > > > system to its knees. I found the -j3 was generally acceptable with > > > 8GB, -j2 may have been better, but as long as it worked I was happy. > > > > > > I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although I > > > now use Chromium from stable to reduce that. > > > > Ahh! Yes, running Chromium ~amd64 must introduce a whole new world of > > pain! :-) > > > > Have you also tried 'echo bfq > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler' to see > > if it makes a difference? It seems to have made a positive difference > > on my systems here, especially if they are on spinning disks, with > > limited RAM. > > It's an SSD, but I now use distcc for Chromium and a few other large > packages and the problems have gone away. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > A good pun is its own reword. > -- Regards, Marcin Woźniak

