On Dec 20 09:44:38, mlar...@nested.page wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I know the question keeps repeating here,
> > but is there a web browser that is at least usable?
> >
> > I switched from Firefox to Chrome about a year ago,
> > but it has become unbearably slow and hungry.
> >
> > On a machine with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz,
> > and 8GB of ram, about ten tabs make it ridiculously unresponsive.
> >
>
> That's a CPU released in 2008. Thirteen years ago. While I agree that browsers
> have become more bloated, I think the "ridiculously unreponsive" claim here
> is probably due to something else in this case.
Is that considered slow by now? I honestly don't know.
Beside chrome, everything runs smooth as an oiled cucumber;
kernel recompiles in a few minutes, no problem except the browser.
(Truth be told, I also happen to like these older Thinkpads.)
Jan
