i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10

Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by pmarin on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:39PM (#20218727)

Many things, none of them good if you have 2 Gb of RAM, 2 cores and no graphics acceleration. Chromium works really well in this kind of hardware specially with javascript blocked.

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by 0815test on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:24PM (#20219072)

My understanding is that FF Quantum works just fine even on as little as 1GB RAM. (In fact you can make it usable on as little as 512MB, but only with some swap usage.) Chrome/Chromium is a lot more RAM-hungry in my experience.

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:58PM (#20220213)

Huh? I've used Firefox Quantum in a VM with 512mb of RAM, it works acceptably on simple sites.

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by imtringued on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @06:52AM (#20222234)

I remember the glorious days when firefox was not a memoryhog. 700MB for hundreds of tabs. Nowadays it needs 2GB because of the awful multi process model.

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by seba_dos1 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @08:01AM (#20222501)

At least it's not as bad as Chromium's one, which is unusable on machine with 8GB RAM with hundreds of tabs.

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by pmarin on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @02:05AM (#20221167)

My real usercase experience is not the same. None of the modern web browsers are really usable with 512 mb.

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by diffeomorphism on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:30AM (#20221486)

So how is this related to firefox quantum? It was not a "modern web browser" before that?

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Re:i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10 by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:26AM (#20222366)

Note, I meant really simple sites. Stuff like Hacker News, and the basic html version of gmail.

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