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Mark_T

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Registered: 2026-08-30

Posts: 6

Slow Firefox.

Good morning,
my system:
- s.o: "Q4OS Aquarius, Trinity - 32bit / i386"
- pc: Acer travel Mate 4652 with Intel pentium M740

The browser Firefox Esr  is it very slow: both at startup and in use.

It's normal for this pc, or recommend another browser.
Thanks.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 6,352

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Re: Slow Firefox.

Firefox can indeed be slow on your hardware, especially on modern JavaScript-heavy websites. Startup time can also be relatively long. You could try a lighter browser, for ex. Falcon, but don't expect a dramatic improvement on today's web. The main limitation is the CPU and the amount of work modern web pages require, rather than Q4OS itself. For such old hardware, we would also recommend keeping the number of simultaneously open tabs low and avoiding heavy websites where possible.

If you post the output of:
$ free -h
$ inxi -Fxz
we can have a better look at whether there is a hardware/resource limitation.

Mark_T

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Registered: 2026-08-30

Posts: 6

Re: Slow Firefox.

$ free -h
with only Firefox active and sigle card.

~$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           2,0Gi       869Mi       682Mi        71Mi       732Mi       1,1Gi
Swap:             0B          0B          0B

$ inxi -Fxz

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-52-686-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: Trinity v: R14.1.1 Distro: Q4OS 5.10-deb12u1 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: TravelMate 4650 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Acer model: Dunlin v: * serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Acer
    v: 1.80D date: 05/25/2005
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 47.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 47.0/63.6 Wh (73.9%)
    volts: 16.5 min: 14.8 model: SONY BATCL50L status: full
CPU:
  Info: single core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 arch: M Dothan rev: 8
    cache: 2 MiB note: check
  Speed (MHz): 800 min/max: 800/1733 core: 1: 800 bogomips: 3457
  Flags: nx pae sse sse2
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-3
    bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: i915 gpu: i915
    resolution: 1400x1050~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: i915 (: 915GM) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1e.2
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-52-686-pae status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 05:01.0
  IF: enp5s1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
    v: 1.2.2kmprq bus-ID: 05:02.0
  IF: wlp5s2 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 4.12 GiB (7.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-52-686-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: Trinity v: R14.1.1 Distro: Q4OS 5.10-deb12u1 base: Debian
    GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: TravelMate 4650 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Acer model: Dunlin v: * serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Acer
    v: 1.80D date: 05/25/2005
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 47.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 47.0/63.6 Wh (73.9%)
    volts: 16.5 min: 14.8 model: SONY BATCL50L status: full
CPU:
  Info: single core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 arch: M Dothan rev: 8
    cache: 2 MiB note: check
  Speed (MHz): 800 min/max: 800/1733 core: 1: 800 bogomips: 3457
  Flags: nx pae sse sse2
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-3
    bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: i915 gpu: i915
    resolution: 1400x1050~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: i915 (: 915GM) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1e.2
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-52-686-pae status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 05:01.0
  IF: enp5s1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
    v: 1.2.2kmprq bus-ID: 05:02.0
  IF: wlp5s2 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 55.89 GiB used: 4.12 GiB (7.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD600UE-22HCT0
    size: 55.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.71 GiB used: 4.12 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
    or lm-sensors.
Info:
  Processes: 141 Uptime: 10m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 902.4 MiB (45.1%)
  Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: N/A Packages: 1204
  Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.26
model: WD600UE-22HCT0
    size: 55.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.71 GiB used: 4.12 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
    or lm-sensors.
Info:
  Processes: 141 Uptime: 10m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 902.4 MiB (45.1%)
  Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: N/A Packages: 1204
  Shell: Bash v: 5.2.15 inxi: 3.3.26

@EDIT
Which way to I install Falkon:
https://www.falkon.org/download/

Last edited by Mark_T (Today 14:04)