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#41 2026-06-18 10:49:23

Colonel Panic
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Thanks for the updates. I might stick with Firefox ESR (version 140.11.0) for the time being until this is sorted out.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2026-06-18 10:49:47)

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#42 2026-06-18 11:57:13

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Hmmm. I'm running the latest Firefox 152.0.1 on Arch Linux and I see 0.3% CPU and 0.0% memory used. Am I doing something wrong?

Last edited by ratcheer (2026-06-18 11:58:40)

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#43 2026-06-18 14:18:58

Colonel Panic
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Sounds great, I'm going to try that one myself.

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#44 2026-06-19 02:07:04

Döbbie03
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

ratcheer wrote:

Hmmm. I'm running the latest Firefox 152.0.1 on Arch Linux and I see 0.3% CPU and 0.0% memory used. Am I doing something wrong?

How many tabs do you have open and how many addons running?

That's always the test. smile

"All we are is dust in the wind, dude"
                                       - Theodore "Ted" Logan
"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
                                       - Wayne Campbell

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#45 2026-06-19 02:59:45

hhh
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

^ On Trixie GNOME, firefox and a terminal open, htop... 2.01G.

What tabs to open? Screw it, I have very little shame left in me, and this is quite innocent...

https://swimsuit.si.com/

So, open 20 tabs of swimsuit shots and htop says RAM is at...

Sorry, I only made it to 4.

https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/imag … v2v1wk.jpg

2.36 jigawatts! Why is lip filler such a big thing in the future? Is gravity somehow affected?

I am very superficial, I hate everything official.

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#46 2026-06-19 12:09:14

ratcheer
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Döbbie03 wrote:
ratcheer wrote:

Hmmm. I'm running the latest Firefox 152.0.1 on Arch Linux and I see 0.3% CPU and 0.0% memory used. Am I doing something wrong?

How many tabs do you have open and how many addons running?

That's always the test. smile

I probably had two tabs open, two add-ons, and two extensions. But the posts I was responding to were saying they didn't have many tabs open, too.

How many do you want me to have open? I'm the type who closes most tabs when I'm finished with them. I probably never have more than, say, 5 open at once.

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#47 2026-06-19 12:57:51

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

hhh wrote:

^ On Trixie GNOME, firefox and a terminal open, htop... 2.01G.

What tabs to open? Screw it, I have very little shame left in me, and this is quite innocent...

https://swimsuit.si.com/

So, open 20 tabs of swimsuit shots and htop says RAM is at...

Sorry, I only made it to 4.

https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/imag … v2v1wk.jpg

2.36 jigawatts! Why is lip filler such a big thing in the future? Is gravity somehow affected?

The high memory footprint could be caused by the images opened in your browser. Usually, picture of a hottie takes way more memory. wink

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#48 2026-06-19 18:13:34

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

ratcheer wrote:
Döbbie03 wrote:
ratcheer wrote:

Hmmm. I'm running the latest Firefox 152.0.1 on Arch Linux and I see 0.3% CPU and 0.0% memory used. Am I doing something wrong?

How many tabs do you have open and how many addons running?

That's always the test. smile

I probably had two tabs open, two add-ons, and two extensions. But the posts I was responding to were saying they didn't have many tabs open, too.

How many do you want me to have open? I'm the type who closes most tabs when I'm finished with them. I probably never have more than, say, 5 open at once.

I'm the same as you, I close tabs when done.  I don't see the point of leaving tabs open perpetually. That's what bookmarks exist for.

"All we are is dust in the wind, dude"
                                       - Theodore "Ted" Logan
"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
                                       - Wayne Campbell

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#49 2026-06-20 11:29:39

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Yes, and there s also OneTab which lets you make a list of the tabs you've had open so you can refer back to them once they're closed.

https://www.one-tab.com/

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2026-06-20 11:30:47)

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#50 2026-06-20 16:54:47

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Thanks for the link, I will check that out.

"All we are is dust in the wind, dude"
                                       - Theodore "Ted" Logan
"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
                                       - Wayne Campbell

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#51 2026-06-21 06:58:32

hhh
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

chroot wrote:

Usually, picture of a hottie takes way more memory. wink

Cannot confirm (my RAM melted).

I am very superficial, I hate everything official.

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#52 2026-07-14 07:56:49

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Martin wrote:
Martin wrote:
WizardofCOR wrote:

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/1 … easenotes/
"first offered to ESR channel users on May 19, 2026"

Release Notes:  https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/1 … easenotes/
I wonder is it a cpu/memhog on just a single tab, or does multiple tabs set it off?
Could be one (or more) of the new "features", eh?

Just firing up FF is enough. No special web site or tons of tabs needed.

The highest CPU load as reported by btop comes from a static html file I use instead of the bookmarks function in FF. This makes no sense at all as there is zero code in that file.

Added June 10: Using upower I see the power consumption of my Lenovo X230 jumps from 6--7 W to 22+ W after I have fired up FF. That's FF just sitting there doing 'nothing' -- no surfing, no youtube or whatever.

On the plus side I can report that gmail works again on FF.

/Martin

Just did some testing since FF was updated this morning. The new version is no better.

However, closing down the tab showing my local html file helps. Opening that file in a new tab does not spin up the fans. Everything is still quiet. This works on both my main computer and my Lenovo X230.

But!! If I terminate FF and re-start it power consumption is high again. I can fix this by repeating the close-open tab procedure of the previous paragraph.

Can anyone explain this?

/Martin

Version 140.12.0esr now and problem gone.

/Martin

"Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by hitting back."
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#53 2026-07-18 03:45:06

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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Well, according to the release notes, there were 13 memory safety bug fixes for that version:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/ … sa2026-58/
Interestingly, diving further into each requires an account or else you get "Access denied."  Like we couldn't dive into the CVE's elsewhere...  lol

Yet at the end of the day, I'm just glad this resolved itself (somehow).
Let's just blame AI.  j/k

Just a dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude...

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#54 2026-07-18 07:22:47

Nili
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

Chrome Stable - Main and  Firefox - Secondary.
I've stopped as much as i can AI slop from Chrome. Finally i have clean profiles, however not like in Ungoogled but acceptable for my needs.

--- google-chrome 150.0.7871.128 (Official Build) (64-bit) ---
   89.2 MiB [##################################] /Default                                                                                                                                                                                      
   67.5 MiB [#########################         ] /Profile 2
   64.7 MiB [########################          ] /Profile 1
   22.3 MiB [########                          ] /WasmTtsEngine
   21.2 MiB [########                          ] /Safe Browsing
   14.5 MiB [#####                             ] /ShaderCache
   14.4 MiB [#####                             ] /GrShaderCache
   11.1 MiB [####                              ] /GPUPersistentCache
    9.4 MiB [###                               ] /extensions_crx_cache
    7.6 MiB [##                                ] /OnDeviceHeadSuggestModel
    2.4 MiB [                                  ] /ActorSafetyLists
    1.8 MiB [                                  ] /hyphen-data
    1.6 MiB [                                  ] /ZxcvbnData
    1.6 MiB [                                  ] /CertificateRevocation
    1.4 MiB [                                  ] /segmentation_platform
  564.0 KiB [                                  ] /OptimizationHints
  548.0 KiB [                                  ] /GraphiteDawnCache
  444.0 KiB [                                  ] /Dictionaries
  440.0 KiB [                                  ] /Avatars
  436.0 KiB [                                  ] /Subresource Filter
  384.0 KiB [                                  ] /PKIMetadata
  312.0 KiB [                                  ] /System Profile
  272.0 KiB [                                  ] /Crowd Deny
  192.0 KiB [                                  ] /SafetyTips
   68.0 KiB [                                  ]  first_party_sets.db
   68.0 KiB [                                  ]  Local State
   24.0 KiB [                                  ] /FirstPartySetsPreloaded
   24.0 KiB [                                  ] /TrustTokenKeyCommitments
   20.0 KiB [                                  ] /MEIPreload
   16.0 KiB [                                  ] /FileTypePolicies
   12.0 KiB [                                  ] /SSLErrorAssistant
   12.0 KiB [                                  ] /AmountExtractionHeuristicRegexes
   12.0 KiB [                                  ] /CaptchaProviders
    4.0 KiB [                                  ] /WidevineCdm
    4.0 KiB [                                  ] /Crash Reports
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  Variations
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  Last Version
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e   0.0   B [                                  ] /component_crx_cache
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e   0.0   B [                                  ] /PrivacySandboxAttestationsPreloaded
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e   0.0   B [                                  ] /NativeMessagingHosts
e   0.0   B [                                  ] /Local Traces
    0.0   B [                                  ]  First Run
*Total disk usage: 334.5 MiB   Apparent size: 327.0 MiB   Items: 5,038
--- firefox 152.0.6 (Official Build) (64-bit) ---                                                                                                                                                                                        
  175.4 MiB [##################################]  libxul.so
   49.7 MiB [#########                         ] /browser
   43.7 MiB [########                          ] /kvc543a7.default-release
   41.4 MiB [########                          ]  omni.ja
    9.7 MiB [#                                 ]  libonnxruntime.so
    8.7 MiB [#                                 ]  libgkcodecs.so
    4.3 MiB [                                  ]  crashreporter
    3.7 MiB [                                  ]  libmozavcodec.so
    3.3 MiB [                                  ]  crashhelper
    1.7 MiB [                                  ]  libmozinference.so
    1.5 MiB [                                  ]  libmozsqlite3.so
    1.4 MiB [                                  ] /fonts
    1.2 MiB [                                  ]  libfreeblpriv3.so
  796.0 KiB [                                  ]  libnss3.so
  704.0 KiB [                                  ] /Profile Groups
  676.0 KiB [                                  ]  pingsender
  632.0 KiB [                                  ]  firefox-bin
  584.0 KiB [                                  ]  libmozavutil.so
  444.0 KiB [                                  ]  libssl3.so
  396.0 KiB [                                  ]  libsoftokn3.so
  272.0 KiB [                                  ]  updater
  220.0 KiB [                                  ]  libnspr4.so
  196.0 KiB [                                  ]  libnssutil3.so
  188.0 KiB [                                  ]  libmozsandbox.so
  176.0 KiB [                                  ]  liblgpllibs.so
  176.0 KiB [                                  ]  libsmime3.so
   92.0 KiB [                                  ] /gmp-clearkey
   36.0 KiB [                                  ] /Crash Reports
   32.0 KiB [                                  ]  glxtest
   24.0 KiB [                                  ]  vulkantest
   24.0 KiB [                                  ]  vaapitest
   20.0 KiB [                                  ]  libplc4.so
   16.0 KiB [                                  ]  updates.xml
   16.0 KiB [                                  ]  libmozwayland.so
   16.0 KiB [                                  ]  libplds4.so
   12.0 KiB [                                  ] /updates
    8.0 KiB [                                  ]  firefox
    8.0 KiB [                                  ]  libmozgtk.so
    4.0 KiB [                                  ] /icons
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  precomplete
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  libxul.so.sig
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    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  firefox-bin.sig
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  application.ini
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  updater.ini
    4.0 KiB [                                  ] /defaults
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  profiles.ini
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  dependentlibs.list
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  platform.ini
    4.0 KiB [                                  ]  update-settings.ini
    4.0 KiB [                                  ] /distribution
*Total disk usage: 351.3 MiB   Apparent size: 351.0 MiB   Items: 237

Both main configs within 300MB

8810

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#55 2026-07-28 06:41:38

Colonel Panic
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Re: Which web browser to choose in 2026

I'm currently posting from a browser called Firedragon, which was developed by the Garuda team and is based upon Floorp. It looks great (very slick themes, a choice of two), but searching from it is extremely problematic; if you try to use Firedragon's own portals to do it, it simply won't (though importing your own bookmakers from elsewhere and using those works fine and that's how I'm posting this),

I think it's a good browser for the right person but proceed with care.

https://firedragon.garudalinux.org/

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2026-07-29 07:05:45)

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