On 2018-04-13, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 13/04/18 18:54, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> I've been using the Chromium browser and the experimental GL desktop
>> on Raspbian Stretch for a couple of weeks now, and it works much better
>> than under Jessie. Still, Chromium (and the entire desktop) become
>> somewhat sluggish after a few hours' running, restored to normal by
>> restarting Chromium.
>>
>> Is anybody else observing this, and are there any workarounds?
>
> Well apropos of not a lot, my whole PC damnn near froze...when I managed
> to get a diagnostic tool running Firefox had eaten 8GB of RAM and 2GB of
> swap.
>
> That was what was left over from logging in to online HSBC banking.
> Nothing else was running.
>
> All browsers are irremediable shit, these days.

And any that aren't are done in by web sites that are irremediable shit.

I find Seamonkey (another Netscape fork) to be not so bad.  But it
eats 100% CPU for up to 30 seconds while I wait for a response from
our company's webmail server, which is also irremediable shit.
(Accessing the same server via IMAP is lightning-fast.)

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