Iridium browser is also quite nice for compatability.

With your think pad you got a decent hardware, congrats!

I have no objection at all to someone using any programs.
But the essence of my thread is that with a weak processor the OS turns into a single-tasking, or rather single-window, if we mean browsers.
And no “light” DEs, browsers, etc. things won't help. If you want normal work, you will have to pay for a more productive computer.

Any recent celeron is better than your cpu, I still have a laptop with an E-450 and performs worse than the ROC-RK3328-CC that I am using to writing this reply with LibreWolf.

Auto quote myself about the RK3328:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/omg.pebca … ox-faq.gmi

I recently bought a second-hand crapbook (Asus L210MA) for less than $60 and compared with this board and the old laptop looks like a Ferrari.

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/omg.pebca … vuan-5.gmi

On both systems the disk is encrypted therefore extra workload to do in real time, and they works just fine.

Modern internet is a shit, and webpages are a pile of crap, that's why we publish our content on Gemini. Try Lagrange on your computer and see how fantastic is browsing the Geminispace.

Falkon piqued my interest but as soon as I found out it was KDE that was it.

Falkon might be a good choice for those people who are using LXQt (or KDE).

Several years ago I used an online builder to create a liveCD of openSUSE with a KDE desktop. It was so bloated and slow that it was essentially unusable.

You can probably block Javascript on pages, but then the necessary functions will not work.

That is only true if you use a heavy-handed approach, such as disabling Javascript completely or using an extension like NoScript (with default settings).

I use these extensions:

uBlock Origin
NoScript (with scripts allowed globally).

With that combination, breakage is rare. And when it does occur, it is easily fixed. I usually disable uBlock Origin on websites that involve transactions, like banking and shopping websites, as a proactive measure.

NoScript in the above combination may appear to be redundant, but it's not. Although uBlock Origin does most of the work, NoScript provides protection against cross-site scripting attacks.

This is the KDE5 project, it is “heavier” than the Trinity I use. If I just install it, it will pull a bunch of Qt5 libraries with it

Falkon piqued my interest but as soon as I found out it was KDE that was it. I actually installed KDE once in its early days. It didn't last long for the reasons mentioned above and that everything was so 'twitchy' and I would be spending too much time turning off all that ADD-inducing garbage . . .

I haven't done this persay, but I have run mate, lxde and xfce4, so I bet it would work with Lumina too.

It also requires the least bloat to use of the four...

I have run the other three desktop environments on that computer before just to clarify.

Although, this was around the days of debian 7...  but I was using a linux distro with upstart and other ubuntu garbage, so... yeah.

choosing a browser

To clarify, my discussion was intended to build on the divide between your point about JS and application usability, versus other observations about how running arbitrary JS (tab count notwithstanding) can contribute to overhead or overheating.

Anyway, there's always curl.

And a respected colleague  @fsmithred correctly pointed out overheating.

The loading graphs presented above are very similar to the stress test graphs. The average desktop works in stress mode for several tens of minutes. Then it turns off due to overheating. In real life, a computer can lower its clock speed, further reducing performance

P.S. As an illustration, today's photo is Lenovo Y500.