[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] [OT] Ars Technica & 770: areas to improve maemo

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> On 12/16/05, Antônio Gomes <antonio.gomes at indt.org.br> wrote:
> 
>>Disconnect wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On the good side, if you can keep it from running out of memory, the web
>>>browsing is every bit as great as the reviewers say. (And 'keep it from
>>>running out of memory' tends to mean things like 'avoid ajax' and
>>>'periodically kill off and restart the browser' :( ..) And nethack rocks
>>>(along with bejeweled, and others).
>>>
>>>Definitely has potential, definitely needs help. (If minimo did http basic
>>>auth, I'd be very very happy. Something about my gregarius install gives
>>>opera hives, but minimo likes it.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>wanna see MiniMo running on 77'device, check [1] out ... :)
>>
>>[1] http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/2005/11/minimo-xul-on-nokia-770.html
> 
> 
> Great!
> 
> Just a tip: Instead of using LD_LIBRARY_PATH, uses GCC linker option
> "-rpath" so you will not need:
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
> 
> Now to the questions:
>  - How this compares (memory, cpu, disc) to Opera? And to webcore?

A few months ago Doug Turner gave me a mozconfig to turn of XUL, which
saved a lot of ram and disk footprint. AFAIK that should be the default
nowadays. Webcore is both faster and smaller (5MB vs 1.5MB on disk), but
doesn't do https or cookies.

regards,

Koen

>  - Will this be made Hildon and OSSO compilant
>  - Will you make the interface a bit better? :-)
> 
> Thanks for your efforts!
> 
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