i386 architecture will be dropped starting with Ubuntu 19.10

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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