As mentioned, Raspberry Pi OS, desktop, 64-bit.
As mentioned, use case is browsing sites like these forums, Reddit, news, etc.
I noticed Firefox says it is 32-bit, is that a performance issue?
I did some research and it seems like maybe Firefox does a lot of logging and caching to storage, so microSD could be the issue. If I got the fastest microSD card available, would it be relatively snappy, or would it still be better with SSD?
Or maybe there is config to turn off all that logging and caching?
Eventually, I can maybe temporarily set up a second RPi 4 with SSD and compare setups. I'd just like to know what to look for. Presumably people are using RPi 4 for web browsing, but right now I consider it unusable, so I'd like to know how people are making it work.
As mentioned, use case is browsing sites like these forums, Reddit, news, etc.
I noticed Firefox says it is 32-bit, is that a performance issue?
I did some research and it seems like maybe Firefox does a lot of logging and caching to storage, so microSD could be the issue. If I got the fastest microSD card available, would it be relatively snappy, or would it still be better with SSD?
Or maybe there is config to turn off all that logging and caching?
Eventually, I can maybe temporarily set up a second RPi 4 with SSD and compare setups. I'd just like to know what to look for. Presumably people are using RPi 4 for web browsing, but right now I consider it unusable, so I'd like to know how people are making it work.
Statistics: Posted by mlepage — Tue Jul 08, 2025 2:20 pm