Hey /g/, I been using Xubuntu for 4 days now, and I was wondering if there are better browsers than Firefox? With only a few tabs open I am using 1 GB of ram.
>>55564480
Chromium
>>55564549
But muh freedom and privacy!
Midori
>>55564585
The thing with these lightweight neckbeard browsers is that modern websites have so much shit in one page that the said browser simply cant handle it, it chokes and uses 100/100 cpu core for 8 seconds everytime i click a nav link.
A solution would be to disable js but at that point i would rather use a cli browser.
>>55564654
Palemoon is an oooold fork of firefox that might use less memory.
>>55564480
Stop using RAM immediately! RAM is there too look at while empty!
Install Lubuntu
>>55564480
If you compile firefox from source on your system, it should be considerably more efficient, assuming you do it right.
>>55564740
But girls can't love girls
>>55564480
Midori is the best browser if you're concerned with ram usage
>>55564867
Perhaps explain how one does it right? I assume you're talking about profile-guided optimization (PGO), -O2 and -march=native? I think the package for Ubuntu already is built with -O2 and PGO. -march=native can't be used for obvious reasons, performance increase is only a few percent though.
>>55564980
You could also potentially apply popular security and cruft removing patches, but yeah.
>>55564549
Uses even more RAM on my i7 with 16 GB, and starts lagging with fewer open tabs than Firefox. Yet somehow it manages very nicely on my crappy 4 GB netbook that Firefox lags on.
>>55564585
Sucks at anything modern.
>>55564654
Javascript bloat is a plague on the web. Some sites (particularly ad farms) will lag modern browsers on an i7 unless you block some of the bullshit. Disable JS but only some of it. Firefox or Palemoon or somesuch with NoScript or uMatrix seems to run decently.
>>55564847
Some people want to have some RAM left to run other programs or VMs, or to let their OS use as disk cache.
>>55564867
Not by a lot. Compiler optimization for a specific CPU isn't what it used to be. You can disable a few features you know you won't need, but that's about it. Still, might be worth doing if just to strip out a few things like Pocket, Hello and WebRTC.
>>55564980
>>55565047
Don't you gain some memory footprint back from using your updated, native libraries that way, rather than packaged stable ones?
>>55565081
Not a lot. The libraries are in the dozens of megabytes. The memory bloat is over a GB.
>>55565099
Does it load 100 libraries? Does it load 30?
>>55565002
Wasn't aware of these patches. Where can I find them? Also, do you happen to know the "correct" way not to build things? For example, I'll take loop (Firefox Hello). I know you can disable it through about:config but not building it would save compiling time.
In gecko-dev/browser/extensions/ I have a folder named loop. There is a moz.build file that looks like this:DIRS += [
'e10srollout',
'loop',
'pdfjs',
'pocket',
'webcompat',
]
Now, if I don't want to include loop... Do I simply remove it from the moz.build file? Anything else I need to do or is there perhaps even another way?
>>55565123
Here are a few.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=firefox-esr-privacy
I expect there are more. Plus some forks may offer subsets of their alterations as separate patches.
>>55565123
>Also, do you happen to know the "correct" way not to build things?
Nope. But the Icecat people have managed to remove Hello, so you can probably get some guidance from their code.
>>55565120
In the install directory of the Windows version I see roughly 17 libraries that aren't specific to Firefox, totaling about 22 MB. The biggest file in the directory is xul.dll at 37 MB, and that's obviously specific to Firefox.
>>55565165
Thanks. I'll take bookmark that and take a better look at it later.
>>55565047
You could also use an extension like uBlock Origin that has the ability to not load any resource over a set filesize even while JS is running. Pages that try to load tonnes of images and video before even displaying can sometimes be unfucked by this. Breaks most video streaming sizes, though.
this
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ramback/
or pic related.
>>55565438
>using 2 GB and lagging like hell
>minimize memory usage
>now only 1.8 GB and still lagging like hell
Yeah, that helped a lot.
>>55565501
You got e10s turned on?
>>55565546
Nope. I use a lot of tabs and the memory use goes up. Then when I close them it doesn't go down by much.
>>55564480
Google chrome
>>55565612
Thanks anon. It's so much more efficient this way. Now I can use 1 GB with only 1 tab.
>>55564480
OP, you're doing it wrong.
Here's me with 16 loaded tabs and a separate HD Youtube video running on Manjaro Xfce 64-bit.
