On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 10:07:30 -0700
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Firefox 61.0.1 on Xubuntu 16.04.
>
> I have tried Chrome, Midori, and lots of other browsers, but they all
> fail to provide all the functionality that I need. And they tend to be
> just as gluttonous as Firefox anyway.
>
> The big problem is CPU usage. The computer has 16GB of RAM, and I
> never come close to using all of it. But Firefox usually takes most
> of the CPU. This leaves me little for ripping and encoding movies,
> which is also very CPU intensive.
>
> I found a little program called cpulimit, which doesn't quite work. I
> launched Firefox yesterday with 'cpulimit -l 20 firefox' and right now
> Firefox itself is taking a mere 3% of the CPU, but there are currently
> four Firefox child processes ('contentproc') and one of them is taking
> 80%. This wouldn't be annoying if it was just a temporary usage while
> it was loading a web page or something, but it has been stuck at 80%
> for the past hour, even though all Firefox windows are minimized.
>
> The only way to get Firefox to behave is to kill it completely. And if
> I then re-launch it, even though I have it restore the previous
> session, it initially takes little of the CPU, but by a couple hours
> later it is back to taking almost all of it.
>
> Any suggestions?
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I've been using NetSurf and Otter. Netsurf works great for everything
that does not require JavaScript, and otter for everything else. Netsurf
is written in C and does not fork another web rendering engine but uses
it's own. Otter is a different approach to web browsers. It attempts to
detach the web render from the actual browser UI itself. This makes it
possible to switch to a different engine at the change of a setting. I
personally prefer using Otter with the legacy QTWebKit engine rather
than the newer QTWebEngine as it was forked from Google's chromium and I
do not trust a google project with my personal information even if it
claims to be de-googled.
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
http://otter-browser.org/
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