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I currently use Firefox with JS disabled, for casual browsing, and Min for anything with video or JS https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ https://minbrowser.github
by timonovici 10y ago
I currently use Firefox with JS disabled, for casual browsing, and Min for anything with video or JS https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ - finally, after years, I can use a system with less than 8G of RAM.
This browser is based on Electron - does Electron also bundle this abomination of DRM plugin?
- Zardoz84 10y agoIf you disabled JS, why you not use something far more lightweight, like ELinks ?
- timonovici 10y agoI need images, tabs, tabgroups. The developer tools are nice to have. And I'm just used to it. It sits just below 500M of RAM, with about a hundred tabs. I can deal with that.
- goodplay 10y agoI use linux's control groups with very satisfactory results.
- bcook 10y agoIn what way do you use them?
- goodplay 10y agoI designate a separate memory control group for the browser, and set both `memory.limit_in_bytes` and `memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes` to 1.5 GB. Then the browser is launched within that group. The tools are the standard cgcreate and cgexec. When the browser depletes all its memory allowance, I use killall to kill the tab processes leaving only the chrome running. I refresh the tab I want and carry on. Might seem convoluted, but works extremely well in practice. edit: It should be noted that I currently use chromium. I intend to switch to firefox as soon as I can port this workflow to it or otherwise achieve a similar result.