Generally speaking I'd suggest installing Firefox on older devices. It's usually...

skinkestek · on Sept 15, 2023

On a slightly newer machine (3 years old, 32GB memory) Firefox (or rather LibreWolf) again runs nicely with a few hundred tabs.

It would probably run fine with that amount of tabs also if it had 16 or maybe 8 GB, but not together with 2 or 3 IDE instancee, Teams, Slack and ome or more applications running in debug.

pbmonster · on Sept 15, 2023

I have absolutely zero issues on 10 year old hardware with 16GByte of memory. Hundreds of tabs (Firefox is really good about moving them out of memory when they don't get used for a while - which, lets be honest, are almost all of those tabs) and the normal everyday onslaught of office software, a fat IDE, and a CAD editor.

This stuff is not rocket science. It's not even performance gaming. We worked efficiently in 2013, and it still works today. All it takes is some memory and a halfway decent SSD.

mymac · on Sept 15, 2023

It bloody well should though, 32G is massive.

michaelt · on Sept 15, 2023

Sort of - but completely normal for a developer's desktop circa 2013, even without paying the Xeon tax.

Of course, a high school at that time might have purchased poverty-spec chromebooks with 4GB of RAM for understandable reasons of price.

So when samtheprogram talks about "devices from early to mid 2010's" that could mean a great many things.