As I am sure that you know, a desktop like KDE takes up a lot of memory
on the memory stick. LXDE takes up a lot less and that leaves more room
for your stick to run programs. That might be a bigger variable than
choice of web browser. Both will run faster in LXDE because there is
more room left over on the memory stick after the desktop has done it's
work.
On 10/12/2012 4:07 PM, Jack Chastain wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Orion Vianna
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 12/02/2012 12:55 AM, Jack Chastain wrote:
I am limited by the hardware to 1G RAM. The System monitor
shows I am using roughly 80% (799M) when I start up and open
my normal Chromium browser list of about 7 tabs, and little else.
I use Firefox as my primary web browser which seem to consume less
memory then chrome or chromium. In my experience flashblock,
adblock plus and noscript addons help firefox consume even less
memory. Setting "don't load tabs until selected" in firefox tabs
preferences can also help.
I actually did this and yes, FF does use less - but over time, it
still maxes out. I think it is generally better though.
I did a little research on memory use under Ubuntu and mostly
find older posts. I am not sure if there is anything I can
tune to reduce overall memory use, but if anyone has
suggestions, I'd love to hear.
Switching to Unity 2D might help because it's much lighter then
compiz. You could also try a lighter window manager or other
lighter desktop environment.
I am going to get around to that - one day...
Thanks for the ideas!
JC
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