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Thanks! Good to know that Firefox is working for you, even with only 1 GB of memory. I'll need to ponder why my experience was so much worse...

Edit to add, in case anyone's curious: suspend works for me (but not hibernate).

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Please note that I had to correct the 1GB to 2GB. Sorry for giving incorrect data first.

Firefox can indeed work with only 1GB, although so little RAM imposes some restrictions on the OS and desktop used. Here are two VM examples: Alpine Linux and DietPi, both using XFCE as desktop manager, with Firefox plus HN front page loaded and one terminal window.

https://ibb.co/4PXrGtF

https://ibb.co/DwcTrQp

Is that a setup you use regularly, with other apps? How is your swap space configured?

My lived experience on Alpine, with no desktop environment on 1 GB is that Firefox needs more memory than that. Browsing the super-lightweight HN site is probably ok, though!

That one was just a test on a VM.

It works, but do applications just grow their memory consumption over time? I woudn't be overly surprised.

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