leenie, I use Brave browser on my smart phone. I tried it out on one of my laptops. It's OK. I didn't really run into any problems and there wasn't any one thing that totally turned me off. It's another of those "didn't do it for me" things. LOL!

Nice desktop, cheiron. Neat & clean the way I like it.

Dang! That's exactly what I was looking for. Where did you find that?

I can live with Adblock Plus. I can live without DownThemAll. I'd really like to be able to download YouTube videos and other videos on different sites. I did notice on their List Of Features page that you can supposedly download online streaming videos as a feature of the browser.

Next question. Have you, or anybody else, used Slimjet for any length of time? I might give it a whirl if somebody indicates it's worth trying.

Also, do you, or anybody else, have a different browser to suggest?

I guess this is the best place for this question. If not, feel free to move it wherever it needs to be.

First, let me explain a little about how I use my web browser. It's not uncommon for me to have 20, 30, 40, or even more tabs open while I'm on the 'Net. I research a lot of stuff and leave each web page open while I compare info and cross reference stuff. I also have lots of tabs open when I start viewing videos on YouTube. When I do either of those things, after a while, Firefox will slow down and I have to either close the browser and reopen it or sometimes I just clear the memory using "about:memory" then I'll clear the History, Cookies, and Site Data and go back to browsing. This has been the "norm" since I started using Mint XFCE a few years ago.

Just now I was on the old laptop that has R10 installed on it and I noticed I had over 30 tabs open, but there was no noticeable slowdown. So, to experiment, I went out of my way to open 50 tabs, then started in watching YouTube videos while the original 50 tabs were still open. Still no noticeable slowdown. To be sure I wasn't imagining this, I opened my wife's Facebook account and started browsing through her timeline, being sure to view as many videos as I could. STILL, no slowdown.

So, here is my question for one of you that has more knowledge about the internal workings of a Linux operating system and Firefox web browser. What is the difference between how Mint XFCE &Firefox works and how WattOS R10 & Firefox works? Why does Firefox become clogged up and start running slowly on Mint XFCE, but runs perfectly on R10? Does WattOS just handle resources better than Mint XFCE?

Any suggestions or explanations will be greatly appreciated.

That link isn't working for me. I tried doing a quick search for that thread, but can't seem to locate it. It's probably right in front of me. LOL!

Yeah, I gave Sparky a couple of looks in the not too distant past. There is just something about it that doesn't sit right with me. I can't really put my finger on it, but it just doesn't do it for me. It's not a "good fit" for me.

I tried really hard to like Xubuntu, but the more I tried, the less I liked it. It's not "polished" enough, if that makes sense. I tried just about every distro out there that uses XFCE or LXDE/LXQT in the last 4 to 6 weeks. A few are close, but none clicked enough to make me want to use it as a daily driver. One if the things I noticed is that none of the XFCE distros used less resources than Mint 20.2 XFCE. At least not enough less to make me want to switch.

I've already used R10 about as much as I used any of them. I'm REALLY hoping R12 is as sweet and complete as R10. If it is, I'll reload 5 laptops and one desktop immediately. R10 is using less than half of the resources that any of the XFCE distros I've tried. That's significant. At least to me it is.

I don't doubt that it was worth it. I've spent plenty of 24 to 48 hour marathons installing systems then tweaking them. I started out with Red Hat Linux when it was first released back in the mid 90s. I have tried pretty much every major distribution there is, including lots that are no longer around. I spent 30+ years in the computing industry in one form or another.

I've simply reached the point where I no longer have the desire or ambition to do all those things I used to do. I'd much rather install a "ready to go" distro that suits my needs and only requires me to remove a few apps and add a few, then tweak the appearance of the desktop and windows. I have always been after the distro that offers a desktop that stays in the background and doesn't eat half of my available resources. I can see that WattOS fits the bill perfectly after playing with R10 for a short while. I can hardly wait for R12. I'm almost like a kid at Christmas. LOL!