Firefox has been improving drastically in terms of performance with every release. It’s pretty evident in recent months, which is very heartwarming to be honest.
I, however, do to some bad circumstances, have been stuck with a not-so-good laptop (8 GB RAM, a 6th gen processor in AMD A8 7410) and Firefox doesn’t run that well on it. This is something that I’ve observed with Firefox- if you have a decent machine then it will run amazingly fast. However, on lower-end machines, performance can be a struggle AT TIMES.
Any tips on making this browser run at it’s best potential on a weak system are appreciated!
I have similar machine, but I run Linux, and don’t have these problems. Not exactly configured just some profiles for different use cases.
It was eye-opening how it got faster and snappier after getting rid of windows. Most apps don’t need tinkering, just installing from repo for me.
I would be more than happy to try Linux, but until now I just thought I shouldn’t before I try it on a secondary machine, something that I don’t have at the moment.
But right now, it seems that I am just missing out. Would try Linux Mint this week if possible!
I use mint and it is great choice, I am not so techy and it just works on this machine.
As the another comment mentioned, you can run it from a usb to test it out first. And if you like it, you can dual boot it with Windows so you don’t need to remove Windows entirely if you still need it.
If you have a USB stick you’re not using you can install Mint on it and boot directly from the USB drive without modifying your actual OS, and see how you like it! The same is true of many other linux distributions if you’d like to explore, but Mint was my own first foray into linux and I think it’s a comfy distro to start off with. I think you’ll be shocked by how snappy it can be on a lower spec machine like that, even running from a USB stick.
Even more minimalist option to try: Crunchbang++