Browsers in Lite

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Just to add one comment, to this discussion. When it comes to Firefox, CPU speed appears to be more important than RAM in my experience. I have a 12year old 32bit HP box that I use for testing and some building of 32bit applications and programs. I now run three HDDs on it using a Sisun mechanical drive switcher. I have 32bit LL 3.6 on an old 80g 5400 drive on this box with a completely updated system and Firefox. I have zRAM enabled. The board only has 1gig of RAM. I can watch you tube video and open other tabs at the same time and the RAM usage never exceeds 700Mb. I also run conky at the same time with 11 functions running. The CPU is very fast as this was a high end machine I purchased new with a 3Ghz CPU. During heavy load the CPU spikes at about 97% but the RAM usage rarely exceeds 600Mb. I know it is a rare machine, a 64bit capable CPU on a 32bit MOBO but it clearly indicates that CPU speed is more important than RAM to Firefox. Firefox is slowly outgrowing older slower CPUs and MOBOs with slower bus speeds but older machines with fast CPUs will continue to work just fine. I have another 32bit laptop machine with again an odd duck CPU 2.4Ghz Celeron and 2G RAM that behaves in the same way, about 1G of RAM usage with heavy load though it spikes the CPU more often. I only keep old computers that have fast CPUs. I work on many newer boxes that cannot function as well with Firefox. In 64bit even with good standard 4G RAM the older 1G up to 2G CPUs have slow downs and long CPU spikes with Firefox now. I have had some success with 32bit PAE kernels on a few slower native 64bit ASUS boxes.

TC