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GPE mini browser

Which are the advantages of the GPE mini browser.
Is it quicker? does it replace the opera or can you have both browsers?
thank you

Truly, it's main feature is that it is open source. Not that, in the context of maemo, that isn't important. It's just that I'm waiting for MANaOS (Minimo).

Speaking of waiting: http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/

Oh and yes, the browsers will run side by side.

also better javascript support

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Originally Posted by gultig

Minimo is being developed by Doug Turner and he has evidence of Mnimo running on the 770 here. MANaOS appears to be embedded Mozilla (Gecko?) which is not the same as Minimo, I suspect "true" Minimo is (or will be) better tuned for the smaller devices.

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Originally Posted by Milhouse

I'm not sure what you mean. If you go to the link you gave to Doug's site it says that "Screen shots and alot of the work done by Antonio Gomes." which is who is working on MANaOS. And at Antonio's site it says

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It uses a almost default Minimo build, except for the disabling XUL (--disable-xul specified on the mozconfig file (mozilla/minimo/config/mozconfig/linux_x86) and a simple extension for zoomming based on the colorzilla algorithm (this component is built in JS and suchs on a real device).

manaos in december

Dudes,

We do use the same Minimo build for MANaOS, and its UI is in GTK through. The main problem so far is the footprint -> 17mb :o

but anyhow, I promisse I'll be releasing MANaOS 0.2 sources/.deb/howtoinstall it before christmas ;)

--Antonio Gomes
http:// tonikitoo dot blogspot dot com

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Originally Posted by tonikitoo

Toni (hope that's an acceptable short version of your name), where are the savings in size likely to come from? I can only see removal of features as a way of decreasing memory footprint - unless you're streets ahead of the other Firefox developers in terms of code optimisation :)

hey andy (hope that's an acceptable short version of your name as well :D ). That's a good and hard to anwser question. Well, we had some time ago a guy working full-time on compile options for code reduction, and we reliazed that it wouldn't be a piece of cake getting significant reduction through this path. But if you check the your target_dir/ (after 'make install') after building minimo, you'll notice some directories not relevant for us (they are for minimo, not for manaos), like

____'chrome'

[sbox-meamo: /usr/lib/mozilla-manaos-engine] > du -sh chrome/
3.0M chrome

____'res' - it could be also removed out (at least partially)

[sbox-meamo: /usr/lib/mozilla-manaos-engine] > du -s res/
928 res

:cool:, isn't it a good start point ?! I got 4 mb easily.

We are working on the mozconfig file as well. I hope to get 11 mb before the end of this year !

that's what I can say for instance ... What do you think ?

--Antonio Gomes
http:// tonikitoo dot blogspot dot com

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Originally Posted by tonikitoo

We do use the same Minimo build for MANaOS, and its UI is in GTK through. The main problem so far is the footprint -> 17mb :o

Apologies for creating any confusion - look forward to future releases! :)

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Originally Posted by tonikitoo

hey andy (hope that's an acceptable short version of your name as well :D ).

Yep :D

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That's a good and hard to anwser question. Well, we had some time ago a guy working full-time on compile options for code reduction, and we reliazed that it wouldn't be a piece of cake getting significant reduction through this path.

I guessed as much. Short of crippling the browser by removing features, I guess there's not much that can be done.

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But if you check the your target_dir/ (after 'make install') after building minimo, you'll notice some directories not relevant for us (they are for minimo, not for manaos), like

____'chrome'

[sbox-meamo: /usr/lib/mozilla-manaos-engine] > du -sh chrome/
3.0M chrome

____'res' - it could be also removed out (at least partially)

[sbox-meamo: /usr/lib/mozilla-manaos-engine] > du -s res/
928 res

:cool:, isn't it a good start point ?! I got 4 mb easily.

Definitely a good start :)

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We are working on the mozconfig file as well. I hope to get 11 mb before the end of this year !

that's what I can say for instance ... What do you think ?

It's a very good improvement. I looked on my 770 and the Opera executable is around 4meg, though that doesn't included any specific libraries which are required. It also doesn't stop it using up to 21meg of RAM with some web pages though - the Lost episode guide for example :( And when you have two of those running for some reason, there's not a hell of a lot of memory left to run anything else.