Firefox is totally doable on that much RAM. Not going to be pleasant, but usable. You want to strip down as much resource usage as you can: inside Firefox throw in uBlock Origin and Tab Unloader; outside Firefox use a stripped down desktop like XFCE or just a straight low resource window manager with no desktop environment (I was a big fan of WindowMaker back in the day).

Link to the paper he’s referencing:

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/cognitive-bias/2025-tully.pdf

Sure, but for consistency you also have to pronounce JPEG as “jay-feg”.