Check out the sessions feature in Chrome. Jeremiah Bess
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 12:36 PM fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 9:00:44 AM UTC-4, Network Ninja wrote: >> >> Not sure why you'd want to run two browsers at once, but web browsers are >> notorious for being memory hogs. Check the web for limiting memory useage >> for both those browsers, and you'll find some good articles. >> >> What is your swap partition set to? Use "free" in a command shell and >> look for the total swap size. You may want to consider setting it to twice >> your RAM size since you are limited. >> >> You may also want to consider a hack to use a flash drive as extra ram, >> which is essentially more swap space, faster than your hard drive but not >> as fast as traditional RAM. >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 01:43 fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 8:57:12 AM UTC-4, Network Ninja wrote: >>>> >>>> You certainly can. To make sure it's the desktop causing the issue, I >>>> suggest booting the machine into command line only mode. Run something like >>>> "top" and see if the machine freezes like it did with the GUI Desktop. >>>> >>>> To get into command line only, from a terminal run "sudo init 3". This >>>> will shut down the GUI and you should be at the command prompt. If you need >>>> to get back into the GUI, you can run "sudo init 5". >>>> >>>> If you find the machine is not freezing as before, you can look at what >>>> packages need to be installed to get the Desktop of your choice. There are >>>> plenty of articles about that, but let us know how it works out for you or >>>> if you need any help. >>>> >>>> Jeremiah Bess >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 10:56 PM fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 1:45:04 PM UTC-4, [email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I tend to agree with Jeremiah. In recent time, Ubuntu has become a >>>>>> ravenous resource hog. Any distro with a lighter weight window manager / >>>>>> desktop environment would better. Ubuntu Mate comes to mind and any of >>>>>> the >>>>>> ones in the link Jeremiah shared. Best of luck to you and let us know >>>>>> what >>>>>> you decided on and if you have any questions. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:51 AM Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> The specs for the laptop show a quad-core 1GHz processor, but Ubuntu >>>>>>> 18.04 requires a dual-core 2.0 GHz minimum ( >>>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements). >>>>>>> I think you just don't have the processing power to run that version of >>>>>>> Ubuntu. You may want to look at light-weight versions of Linux that are >>>>>>> better suited for your hardware. Peppermint and Lubuntu are popular >>>>>>> choices, but this article has some others you can consider: >>>>>>> https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Jeremiah Bess >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:35 AM fugee ohu <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on an Asus X102B laptop This laptop has >>>>>>>> 4GB on board ram (soldered on) I thought I'd be alright with 4GB RAM >>>>>>>> but >>>>>>>> this thing freezes up all the time I thought it was hardware like the >>>>>>>> soldered on memory maybe not being as good as traditional user >>>>>>>> replacable >>>>>>>> memory but now I'm thinking it must be Ubuntu OS >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>>>>>>> Users Group. >>>>>>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>>>>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>>>>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) >>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups "Linux Users Group" group. >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>>>>>> Users Group. >>>>>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >>>>>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>>>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>>>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "Linux Users Group" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> <>< Scott Vargovich <>< >>>>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>>>> OpenPGP Key ID: 29C36884 >>>>>> ========================== >>>>>> Ham Radio Call Sign: KE8CQC >>>>>> ========================== >>>>>> GMRS Call Sign: WQXJ287 >>>>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Can't I just change my desktop? I've got a lot of apps installed I >>>>> don't wanna spend time reinstalling all of them >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >>>>> Users Group. >>>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>>> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >>>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Linux Users Group" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>> Things are a lot better since I installed xubuntu-desktop but with 4gb >>> ram I still can't run Chrome and Opera at the same time >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >>> For more options, visit our group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >>> ) >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Linux Users Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> > I have a buying and selling account on ebay I use chrome for buying and > opera for selling lol > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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