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  • Huh. Some of this may be useful. I want to run firefox using nice because it's such a pig. I can do that but I have a terminal session open that I have to ignore. Commented Jun 4 at 14:41
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    @Wastrel nice is the wrong tool here, because firefox spawns separate processes! But: systemd-run can actually put firefox in a resource group ("scope") that says "when CPU time and RAM get rare, do not let firefox use more than x% of that". I think I actually have an extensive answer on that somewhere. Commented Jun 4 at 14:46
  • also, firefox is not a "pig". If you have a website or plugin that runs computations all the time, yeah, that eats CPU. But firefox in itself doesn't do more than necessary. Commented Jun 4 at 14:49
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    @Wastrel see my answer's update. Commented Jun 4 at 14:52
  • Thank you very much. Commented Jun 5 at 14:09