Obviously if you open up loads of tabs; it will eventually grind to a halt; But I do use Chromium and Firefox on several Pi3s (1GB versions) with quite acceptable results. Obviously it isn't as fast as a Pi5 or a fast intel/AMD machine...but it IS use-able. It actually runs far better than some ancient wintel Laptops (even with Linux) that I have lounging in a cupboard because I'm too much of a hoarder to bin them.For some value of ok.... It is easy to have a 3B+ running from an SD card, with the default settings, descend into swapping hell if you open up more than a couple tabs in Chromium. This is almost guaranteed if you don't up the amount of swap available. A 3B+ running from an SSD with a reasonable amount of swap is not bad, as long as you temper your expectations to the cost of the machine.I have several 3s. They run a web browser OK.FWIW I'm running Mozilla Firefox 102.15.1 esr on my RPI 3B+ running Bullseye.
Expecting a current full functioned browser to run on a Model B with 512 MB is not a realistic expectation. That is a sad statement, but modern browsers are incredible memory hogs.
Statistics: Posted by kip_the_elder — Tue Jul 09, 2024 8:24 am