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Is Firefox tolerable to use on a pi 5 or 500+? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/raspberry_pi@programming.dev

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I've found that my Pi 400's built in web browser is almost unusable with bloaty script-heavy sites, so I'm wondering if the Pi 5 or 500+ is any better. There would be an NVMe SSD present if that helps.

If someone has this setup, could they take a look at homedepot.com ? That's a very slow and obnoxious site that I use sometimes, as I do buy some from there when I can't avoid it. I'm ok if it's a bit sluggish but my Pi 400 was near incapable of navitation or loading the page in a reasonable amount of waiting.

Thanks!

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I actually never tried Firefox on my 400. I only tried the built-in Raspbian browser which I think might be Chromium based. The 400 has 4GB of ram which should really be enough to view any reasonable web page, I hope? I mean just the one page, not 100 open tabs at the same time. Anyway, the 500+ has 16GB of ram, and I browse a lot right now with an x86 laptop with 4GB. So whatever the problem with the 400 was, I don't think it was ram per se. CPU too slow, SD card too low, browser too slow, some combination of the above.

I got the 400 for purposes unrelated for browsing and it worked fine for that. I only tried browsing a few times and it was awful, so I just didn't use it for that. But now I think of migrating from my laptop to a Pi 5 or 500, so have to ask about this.