You are probably right. My memories are of using Firefox on a PC with a mechanical hard drive. Back then Chrome seemed to have the upper hand. But these days Firefox loads instantly when you have an SSD. So yes, please ignore my earlier argument.

Whatever your decision will be, I will be here experiencing it with you.

You remind me of my mistakes, hehe.

But also the good times.

I believe ubuntu doesn’t have it installed by default.

What that reasoning we should install sauerbraten because most people have plenty of hdd space and broadband internet. Better yet, just install all the games so we can relax every now and then between the hard work.

Is webp better than png?

How about Spookie’s House of Jumpscares?

At least I think that’s what it’s called?

Interesting. I did not know that.

Well you could have your ashes disposed by fireworks if you really wanted.

What if your parents are autistic as well? Mine were.

I remember Chrome starting nearly instantly. But that could be that it’s doing some preloading. I haven’t used Chrome in years though. 2 seconds for Firefox startup sounds about right yes.

As for memory, I wouldn’t say Firefox is great. But I often have a lot of tabs open at once while I am researching some things and Firefox is just rock solid for me. It has had some memory leaks in the past but they seem to be mostly gone now. You’d probably find browsers that use less memory but I dare to question if they would use less memory than Firefox in my usecase.

In an unrelated note I am curious which modern browser (in Linux) uses the fewest amount of memory.

My advice would be the latter. That case you can always use the same browser, no matter what OS you decide to use in the future.

Firefox has been slower to startup for a long time. Maybe a few seconds slower compared to Chrome. But it has always made up for it in it’s memory usage. The more tabs you open, the worse Chrome gets.

I think I started using it in the 1.x times. I remember all the flaws it’s had since. I’ve given lots of other browsers a try in the meantime but none come close to Firefox. They might be good enough for others but for power users Firefox is the way to go.

Firefox for sure.

This sounds like the point where you dive into the next rabbit hole of making enclures. At least I could see that happening.

I’m looking to make some wooden enclosures for some things myself.

Same here.

I still use desktops. A lot.

I’m fine with just using the .deb .

I don’t dislike flatpak and it’s good that it exists but I prefer not using it if I don’t have to.

Probably Commander Keen 4 and Prince of Persia in black and white on my dad’s 286 pc.