Look into luakit. I use it exclusively on similar hardware without much issue. It allows for javascript control and with adblocking it can give you the full modern web experience.
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Dec 20 09:44:38, mlarkin@nested.page wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 11:55:38AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I know the question keeps repeating here,
>> > but is there a web browser that is at least usable?
>> >
>> > I switched from Firefox to Chrome about a year ago,
>> > but it has become unbearably slow and hungry.
>> >
>> > On a machine with Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz,
>> > and 8GB of ram, about ten tabs make it ridiculously unresponsive.
>> >
>>
>> That's a CPU released in 2008. Thirteen years ago. While I agree that browsers
>> have become more bloated, I think the "ridiculously unreponsive" claim here
>> is probably due to something else in this case.
>
> Is that considered slow by now? I honestly don't know.
> Beside chrome, everything runs smooth as an oiled cucumber;
> kernel recompiles in a few minutes, no problem except the browser.
> (Truth be told, I also happen to like these older Thinkpads.)
>
> Jan
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