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Subject: Re: Chromium on Pi2
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:42:07 +0100
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On 15/07/2025 21:17, druck wrote:
> On 10/07/2025 00:02, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> The odd thing is that I ran Firefox on x86 with 512MB RAM a
>> couple of years ago and it wasn't nearly as bad.
> 
> Have a look at the size of the executable "then" (which is more likely 
> to be 20 to 25 years ago) and now, and you'll see why a 512M Zero 2 
> doesn't stand a chance.
> 
> ---druck
webkit webprocess is over 1GB on this machine now. Firefox process 
another 800MB

Thunderbird another GB or so.
I buckled and now have 24G RAM.

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