migration from firefox to opera on vivobook ASUS

[eric.elsman]

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KeepassXC works generally better. Good page loading and much better memory usage. No hangs until now.
I have no heavy payloads for my work. This light machine is excellent for its tasks. I had decades a thinkpad, but now I have a new generation computer. light and fast with little energy consumption and no fan!
Let's see how long it lasts.
MX Linux is the best! No systemd.

[eric.elsman]

Bad news. After an update of opera there was no more sound with the notifications. I waited 2 updates, asked on the forum, but I am back to good old firefox. I really need notification sounds for my job.
The main reason to try opera was that firefox filled up my memory. Opera handled this better.
Now I put a nvme disc in the laptop. And on that one I have a swap partition.
Works great. I could not expand the memory above 4Giga. With the swap on the nvme it works great.

[forest_bear59]

As Opera uses the Chromium engine maybe another browser of the "Chromium gang" could do better. I think You could give Vivaldi a try. Nevertheless I'll keep an eye on Opera and test it on my MX-notebook to find out if I can reproduce Your problem. I am mostly using Falkon and Vivaldi for the few websites where Falkon makes difficulties. I did quit Opera when they changed to the 'Blink'-engine and threw away their included mail-client. Interestingly a mail-client now is included in Vivaldi, but that's another story.

Have fun!

Regards
Stephan

[j2mcgreg]

@eric.elsman wrote:

The main reason to try opera was that firefox filled up my memory. Opera handled this better.

Firefox's implementation of hardware acceleration has a known memory leak. Turn it off and see if the situation improves.

https://www.makeuseof.com/enable-disabl ... eleration/