Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 03/07/2020 16:31, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > I've lost count of how many times I open a page and wait for JavaScript
> > bloat to load up with CPU spinning 100% for about 20 seconds. And it is
> > getting worse, as people are moving everything into web browsers.
>
> Agree. But I think that's usually a result of poor design and poor coding
> than a fault of using web for an application (vs desktop). (Of course,
> there would be exceptions to that where you should rather use a desktop.)
Yep. I actually still test my own personal web apps on a single core 
i386 NetBSD 9 laptop.

> For 90% of my browser usage (reading, searching, general browsing) I have
> been using elinks for years. Turn to firefox only when there is no option.
> At times I disable javascript in firefox as well.
To be fair I use firefox with an ad-blocker by default. Deals with most 
of the awful JS on most pages anyway ;)

Mike