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

[From: Antônio Gomes]

>>>>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.)
>>>>
>>>anna see MiniMo running on 77'device, check [1] out ... :)
>>>
>>>[1] http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/2005/11/minimo-xul-on-nokia-770.html
>>>      
>>>
>>
>>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:.
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>>
cool, it really sucks !

>> - How this compares (memory, cpu, disc) to Opera? And to webcore?
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>>
I'll be posting numbers there as well

>
>A few months ago Doug Turner gave me a mozconfig to turn of XUL, which
>saved a lot of ram and disk footprint. 
>
yeap, that's exactly the intention. Probably it'd save about ~4 MB of 
footprint, besides of having the xul-runner disabled at runtime (that 
would make MiniMo faster).  However the '--disable-xul' option you 
mentioned is broken on the current mozilla tree (we do have a guy 
working part-time on it).

See [1] and [2] for more details

>AFAIK that should be the default
>nowadays. 
>
which 'that' ? I missunderstood you here

>Webcore is both faster and smaller (5MB vs 1.5MB on disk), 
>
that's a partuculary true ...

>but doesn't do https or cookies.
>  
>
That's the point. MiniMo does and much more ;) (as plugins and extension 
support, more community rounding it )

>> - Will this be made Hildon and OSSO compilant
>> - Will you make the interface a bit better? :-)
>>
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Actually, we got open source efforts on this regards, check [3] out this 
time :)

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319346
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318041
[3] 
http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/2005/11/manaos-embedded-browser-for-nokia-770.html 



--Antonio Gomes
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