Puppy's poor and inadequate handling of a swap file may be a contributing factor too. ![]() It's just getting too heavy for old machines. There is no question however that the new browser versions are killing off old machines rapidly. I've also disabled automatic browser cache handling. There are a zillion things which Firefox wants to update every time you access the web and this can take a toll on your old machine. The other thing you need to consider is to disable ALL updates of any kind in about:config. I stream a lot now and streaming at 720P mostly works fine. For 32-bit, Firefox is definitely the best way to go. The latest Seamonkey is based on Firefox 91 but I'm pretty sure it does not have all the necessary stuff to access all sites as well as Firefox does. There's a massive difference between using the very latest Firefox (version 114) compared to version 89 for example which I'm using on my old machine. On hardware challenged machines, the better option is to use a slightly older Firefox which will still access all the sites you want but with much less strain on your computer.
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