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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.

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