the3dfxdude wrote on Yesterday, 00:31:

So I'm guessing your 16.5 year old AMD machine is running Windows 10?

Yes. Technically, it's part AMD, part NVIDIA.

the3dfxdude wrote on Yesterday, 00:31:

I am running my own ~1 year newer than your AMD machine with Linux daily driver and it doesn't seem slow in any browser opening or loading most pages. I have noscript or ublock on my browsers. It only really slows down some if I have many demanding tabs. Certain sites are just badly written, IMO, and it's likely a problem on any machine.

Loading pages is OK generally, with exception of cumbersome ones. Chromium and Firefox have grown very large, they could take a while to load from scratch from HDD. At least on Windows, if any of these browsers is used regularly, Windows tends to keep their files in memory, even if they're closed (unless you open enough other programs or data to force them out), in that case, they're ready sooner than they would be if all files still had to be transferred to RAM.

I used to use both uBlock and NoScript, though it was mostly due to not knowing uBlock as well and thought I "need" both.

the3dfxdude wrote on Yesterday, 00:31:

I've never had issues with video playback. Actually, firefox seems to now have working hardware video decoding on linux for the first time for AMD open source drivers, after all these years. So in that respect, an improvement for once. Not a biggie, because software-only video decoding on the CPU is sufficient on the PC

Actually, I remember VAAPI was supported in Firefox somewhere between versions 28 and 52. It was then removed because it was considered not implemented efficiently. Funny, I remember it being quite helpful on my laptop with poor AMD dual-core APU running at 1,35 GHZ with 2 GB of RAM. I swear I remember this was the only time Half-Life in 20:41 60 FPS on YouTube was smooth on that laptop in a web browser on Linux.

That was Ubuntu 16 era. I haven't put any updated regular distro on that laptop since, last Linux endeavor on it was BlissOS 11 (Android 9) from 2020. Oh my, I've never heard the HDD grind so much as with that OS.