At the moment I'm using an old Microsoft Surface (I think it's a 4 pro with Win10) as a touch screen user interface on wifi. I've got a few firefox browser windows full screened for my self hosted services like home assistant, lyrion music player, etc.
The problem is, after a few days, the device gets really slow and unresponsive. Looking at task manager, firefox memory usage has inflated to consume what overhead existed on fresh boot.
Is there some sort of barebones web browser that doesn't load background stuff, doesn't constantly pull updates (I can block this device from the internet), and doesn't hog all the RAM?
The reason I haven't wiped this and put on linux is because, A: I've never needed to, and B: I've heard MS Surfaces don't work well with Linux.
I would like to use my MS Surface for the sake of recycling obselete hardware, but I am open to other hardware suggestions. Having a keyboard is required.