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Hi! I have a few machines, having from 1.5 to 2 GB of ram... Swapping is constant and slows everything as soon as browser is used... So swapping on zram instead of hard disk may be of some help...
From a quick look, seems you could try it by installing zramstart package and manually running zramstart as root. If you want it permanently you should enable mkzram.service which should activate automatically after swap.target and run zramstart.
You could also try if a lighter browser suit your needs, like otter-browser, Falkon, and Midori which we have packaged, plus a few more alternatives. And a light desktop.
Mandriva since 2006, then Mageia since 2011 at home & work. Thinkpad T43 & T400, Dell M4400, Acer Aspire 7. Workstation using LVM, LUKS, VirtualBox, BOINC
Thanks to take the time to answer... i'll test zramstart and mkzram.service.... Yes i know other browsers are lighter... but you know, protected contents (more and more commonly used, following Netfilxe's path...) are only in firefox or widevine-enabled browsers, not the light ones...