Question Chrome and Firefox tabs kept crashing

[lantis3]

Don't know why. This is a Minis Forum Z83-F with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage.

It's been on the shelf for a while and took it out to make sure it runs.

Updated to Windows 10 22H2. Chrome got ad-blocking Ghostery extension but Firefox does not have any plugins.

Thoughts?

 

[Tech Junky]

You need more RAM.

 

[lantis3]

You need more RAM.

Can't upgrade the RAM, it's soldered on and there is no extra slot.

I did watch memory usage and it's under 3.5GB. And I let the system manage swap files. The system still has 28GB free space.

 

[Tech Junky]

Then put Linux on it to use less resources. Chrome and Firefox are ram hogs if you have tabs open. I used to have a baseline of 16gb per system and that wasn't enough after awhile until they fixed the issue last year. I since bumped to 32gb just to or have to deal with it. Swap files in Windows are kind of useless and put extra wear on drives without much benefit. I disable paging on windows by default because of it. Windows alone will eat up 4gb just booting.

 

[lantis3]

Then put Linux on it to use less resources.

Maybe that's something that I should try. Thanks.

 

[Tech Junky]

Yeah, I would install as Ubuntu and then strip out the desktop and use xfce instead. There's a bit of bloat with the default desktop.