[SOLVED] Can't install the iron browser.

[Teunis]

Today I noticed a post in a Firefox newsgroup about a particular website causing huge use of RAM by Firefox.
This is the site/page: http://https://www.mirror.co.uk/news...china-25453267

Indeed, a process called 'web' keeps gobbling ever more memory.
Because other pages on the same tabloid don't exhibit the problem it is probably a scripting error on the site.

Yet I tried it in Chrome and Chromium and they don't give excessive memory use.
Next I wanted to try this in iron64, another 'safe' browser based on the Chrome that I've used in the past.
https://www.srware.net/iron/

I can download the .deb but it fails to install.
I tried with QApt but it gives no info except 'done'.
Via the CLI I get the message 'Can't find package iron64.deb'


Anyone has an idea?

[Snowhog]

Maybe https://www.linuxhelp.com/how-to-ins...wser-in-ubuntu

[Teunis]

Good tip.
I was indeed able to install iron64 via gdebi.
But I don't understand why this did not function via apt install.

Nasty is that I now have a boot problem, after the login I get no further than a black screen...
I feel it can have something to do with the loads of dependencies gdebi pulled in.
Presently using the second boot option neon.

[Fred47]

Just a note that I had no trouble with that website using FF 94.0 I've seen memory problems before, but it's always been with ads.

[Teunis]

Curious but encouraging you did not have problems with the site.

Btw, I found out why I get a black screen, the root drive is full.
Now I have to repair.

[Teunis]

The repair is done and it seems the installation of iron64 was also hindered by the lack of space on the root partition.
I still get the runaway memory use with Firefox on the site mentioned, it does not happen with other browsers.