High Temperature After Firefox Update, my solution

Mabox is (I think) geared towards low-resource systems given its good performance on older hardware, like mine :wink:. At least, that’s what I recommend it for.

The kernel that best suits my hardware is 6.6.119-1-MANJARO.

After the Firefox update, while watching YouTube (1080p60), the temperature exceeded 82°C, and my computer even shut down twice. This happened in both Firefox and Brave. After consulting with ChatGpt, and following several unsuccessful attempts to modify browser settings, he recommended creating a service for systemd. It worked; now the temperature fluctuates between 48°C and 55°C.

If anyone else is experiencing the same issue, here’s the service code (for my AMD FX-6300. Yes, it’s from 2013 :+1:):

[Unit]
Description=CPU governor and frequency limit for FX-6300
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -g schedutil
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -u 3.0GHz
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save it as /etc/systemd/system/cpupower-fx6300.service and activate it with:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable cpupower-fx6300.service

I hope you find this information useful.
Greetings from Argentina.
:people_hugging: :argentina:

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