Sorry. All I meant was looking at web pages, if I’m looking at pfm for instance, it can take some time to go from one page to another, and if I go to a different page, it can take an age until I can type a decent rant, by which time I’ve forgotten what it was that made me so mad in the first place!What do you mean by ‘handle working on web pages’? Editing them then looking at the result? What software are you using to do this handling?
Yes ethernet is more reliable. What OS and browser are you using?Sorry. All I meant was looking at web pages, if I’m looking at pfm for instance, it can take some time to go from one page to another, and if I go to a different page, it can take an age until I can type a decent rant, by which time I’ve forgotten what it was that made me so mad in the first place!
Guess first thing to try is Ethernet connection rather than WiFi?
Most. On Chromium, would something like Firefox speed things up?pfm pages are a poor example, as they can be painfully slow to load at times.
Does it happen on all sites?
I do have a case, but it’s an old one that was used with a dac hat that I’ve dremeled to death to take the new pi.....lots of, er, ventilation!If you have your Pi 4 in a case you may have thermal throttling issues as they run hot.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/22/raspberry_pi_4_too_hot_to_handle/
what is it you are trying to teach yourself?
Why did you choose a Pi as a learning platform?
I really am starting from nothing here. I just want to understand the basics of how a computer works. For example, while I'm happy to hit the download button on Firefox to download it onto my Mac or PC and let my Mac or PC do all the work, on the Pi i need to understand something about 'packages' to enable it to work. I'm hoping that if I can get Firefox onto my Pi/Raspberian/Debian I will have learned a little of the basics about computery things along the way.
(anyone wanna buy a Mac Air???)
Because I have Pi streamers all over the house and I'd like to be able to play with them with a bit more confidence
Already have an adblocker, but not tried disabling JavaScript. I’ll try it tomorrow. Cheers.Try it with Javascript disabled and an ad-blocker, see if the user experience becomes noticeably faster. Obviously then turn everything back on...
It's a disappointing fact of the modern consumer world that ever more CPU cycles are spent not being productive. Fight back, go to the terminal and start learning there.