newbie to swapiness

So on my Samsung NP305V5A laptop running Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon I had some sort freak issue where my system grinded to a halt. I had Openshot video editor up and then had to hop on Firefox for a moment to grab a quick download for my video. I had probably 4 tabs open on Firefox. That combination there froze up my laptop good. I'm actually thinking it was more of the GUI b/c I could slowly navigate through terminal OK. Me hopping on Firefox with my video editor open is something that would happen rarely anyways. Generally I stay off the net while editing my videos. What I observed is while doing this, my system used up about 1.5GB of swap (I have an 8GB swap partition that was created by the installer).

It was after this,I discovered the swapiness setting and have been playing with it here and there just to see how performance is. Here are my system specs:

CPU: AMD A6 3410MX APU at 1.6Ghz(quad core)
RAM: 4GB
HD: 500GB

I know swapiness is not one size fits all and the default setting is 60. Currently I am on 35. Using 1.82GB RAM, 10MB Swap, and the only big thing is Firefox with 6 tabs open and it seems to be running pretty good. I was thinking of having it use most of the RAM vs HD to help save on battery life. I did take the swapiness down to 10 and tried it like that for a little while. Not sure if I will keep it like that or not.

I was just curious what others would recommend with 4GB of RAM and by all means I'll keep experimenting with it too. :)