non-snap version of FF under Ubuntu 22.04?

[Carsten Agger]

On 5/3/23 12:34, Bret Busby wrote:

> I am not supporting the snap stuff, but, I wonder, with the difference 
> in performance between the laptop and the desktop, what are the 
> differences in the configurations of the laptop and the desktop; both 
> the hardware, and, any plugins/extensions installed, on each system.
>
> I am inclined to avoid using a computer with less than 16GB RAM, 
> nowadays, due to the increasing demands for resources.
>
> Conspicuously, you did not include the hardware configurations for the 
> laptop and the desktop.


You're not wrong. I don't in fact remember the hardware config - it's a 
newish Dell Latitude E5550 with I guess an i5 CPU and 8GB RAM (as I 
said), running Ubuntu MATE.

However, the problems, especially conspicuous on a JavaScript-heavy site 
like YouTube, might also have been caused ny conflicting extensions - I 
had at least AdBlock Supreme and Privacy Badger installed.

That said, I'm a big fan on making hardware live as long as possible, 
and if 8GB RAM is enough to develop web apps with Drupal, Django and 
various API services and a KeyCloak added for good measure, it should 
also be enough to use Firefox to see a YouTube video. :)

So, the snap or the newer Firefox might not have been to blame. But for 
now my ESR solution is working out, and I suppose that's most important 
right now.

Best,
Carsten


>
> At present, I am using an i7 CPU with 16GB RAM, for my lesser system, 
> a laptop with a Xeon CPU and 32 GB RAM, for another system, and, a 
> desktop with a Xeon CPU and 128GB RAM, as my primary system. Each of 
> those, includes nVIDIA GPU's. I also run a desktop with an i3 CPU, and 
> 32GB RAM, for even lesser tasks, which I do not boot so often.
>
> And, I have multiple plugins/extensions installed in Firefox, and, in 
> Pale Moon, a couple of plugins and extensions, and, in SeaMonkey, a 
> number of plugins/extensions.
>
> On the i7 system, I run all three web browsers, with multiple windows 
> open, concurrently; on the laptop, I run Pale Moon and Firefox, 
> concurrently, and, on the system with 128GB RAM, I run (at present, 
> and, recently) only Firefox (of the web browsers), in addition to 
> other non-web browser applications, and, I run something like 160-190 
> browser windows open concurrently in Firefox.
>
> So, I suggest that it comes down to the question of the configurations 
> of the two systems that you are comparing; both the hardware 
> configurations, and, the plugins/extensions that you have installed in 
> Firefox, on each system.
>
> Then, there is also te question of whether you are accessing different 
> web sites and web applications, with different Internet pathways, on 
> the two different systems.
>
> I sometimes get data transmission speeds of less than 100 bytes per 
> second, and, sometimes, 7MB per second, depending on the web site that 
> I am accessing. Australia is less advanced than the USA, in terms of 
> Internet data transmission speeds - here, 50MB/s is above average and 
> unusually good.
>
> And, some web sites are so full of s***, that they time out, from time 
> to time. Especially, Australian government web sites (no doubt, with 
> surveillance software built in "We are watching you and wherever you 
> go on the World Wide Web"), that are designed to be obstructive, 
> including the feral government weather bureau web site, that blocks 
> public access to forecasts and warnings related to dangerous weather.
>
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............
>
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