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Jeff Derbyshire

Add more RAM! 16GB is new minimum on Windows. Run Task Manager, or top to figure out what processes are using RAM/CPU/Disk. Speaking of Disk do you have SSD has your primary disk?

i7 is good. I have one from 5 years ago and it works fine. I have 24GB RAM and I only use SSD for OS and applications.

Also a gaming video card can help easing CPU load. I have an ancient Nvidia 460 GTX.

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Clive Da

nice idea but same prob with 16G

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Jeff Derbyshire

what OS? What is list of processes via top or similar?

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Clive Da

host is windows 10 guest is xubuntu 18

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Clive Da

top ten procs are "Web Content"

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Oh? You're running a VM? which one? Is the problem inside the guest? How much of the host ram/cpu did you allocate to the guest vm? How does load speed of guest compare to load speed of host? In chrome you can run developer tools and look at Network tab for speed and size of every file. Firefox has similar tools under "Web Developer". I would test both chrome and Firefox on both systems guest and host to see if there is a large difference in loading times.

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Clive Da

sorry i think i didnt make my point clear my point is throwing cpu and memory at a problem ISNT the answer

if a pentium 3 with 2G ram can show 20 tabs why cant a Core i7 with 8G something is seriously wrong with the modern web technically its about 1000 X more powerful

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Wow you have proof a P3 with 2GB can show 20 tabs? Can you create a video screen share?

What do you think is wrong with the modern web? JavaScript runs on the client machine. Websites back in Pentium 3 era, ran HTML and Perl server-side. Are you saying you want to go back to that?

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Clive Da

YES id go back to anything that can show 20 tabs without FREEZING my PC

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Jeff Derbyshire

Try the NoScript plugins for any browser. It will block all JavaScript.