The fact that some #Firefox users are running it on surprisingly dated hardware is a testament to its versatility and ability to scale down all the way to really old machines.
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Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 20:31:20 JST Gabriele Svelto
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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 20:31:19 JST 翠星石
@gabrielesvelto That's some interesting kind of spying you're doing.
I find that w3m, or lynx, or eww or netsurf performs much better than firefox on all hardware, but at least a free version of firefox is still usable on older hardware (too bad compiling firefox requires the disastrous to compile rust as well as parts of chromium (nodejs)). -
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Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 20:31:20 JST Gabriele Svelto
BTW I don't think running on that kind of hardware is going to be pleasant: all forms of rendering & A/V decoding will be software-only, I/O is going to be a pain, etc... But it still works.
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Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 20:39:12 JST Gabriele Svelto
@Suiseiseki this is public data in crash reports, these are strictly opt-in, nothing is sent unless the user explicitly consents every time. You can see it here: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/
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