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Thanks! Good to know that Firefox is working for you, even with only 1 GB of memory. I'll need to ponder why my experience was so much worse... Edit to add, in

Thanks! Good to know that Firefox is working for you, even with only 1 GB of memory. I'll need to ponder why my experience was so much worse... Edit to add, in case anyone's curious: suspend works for me (but not hibernate).

usr1106 3y ago
It works, but do applications just grow their memory consumption over time? I woudn't be overly surprised.
usr1106 3y ago
Please note that I had to correct the 1GB to 2GB. Sorry for giving incorrect data first.
- squarefoot 3y ago
  Firefox can indeed work with only 1GB, although so little RAM imposes some restrictions on the OS and desktop used. Here are two VM examples: Alpine Linux and DietPi, both using XFCE as desktop manager, with Firefox plus HN front page loaded and one terminal window. https://ibb.co/4PXrGtF https://ibb.co/4PXrGtF https://ibb.co/DwcTrQp https://ibb.co/DwcTrQp
  - schemescape 3y ago
    Is that a setup you use regularly, with other apps? How is your swap space configured? My lived experience on Alpine, with no desktop environment on 1 GB is that Firefox needs more memory than that. Browsing the super-lightweight HN site is probably ok, though!
    - squarefoot 3y ago
      That one was just a test on a VM.