Thread: GPE mini browser
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andymulhearn is offline andymulhearn
2005-12-07 , 13:08
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#12
Originally Posted by tonikitoo
It is really a small set of binaries, and I have to keep these numbers in mind.

The point is: opera has a complete different browser for each supported plataform. I mean, the opera browser running on the 77'device is totaly different from the one running over a linux desktop, that's different of those running on symbians, and on win-desktops, and on winCE, and so on. This isn't definitly what mozilla wants at all. The same sourcebase runs over all this boxes above (except, Symbian so far).
That sounds like a recipe for a lot of wasted effort, unless the core of the browser - rendering engine for example - is the same in all cases. yeuch!
Well, So there are good and not-so-good issues about this choice of mozilla regarding portability.

>> It also doesn't stop it using up to 21meg of RAM with some web pages though -

What do you mean ?! It crashed ?!
Nope, it complained about low memory but still rendered the page. I was quite impressed.
>> 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.

that's absolutily true. I hope you can 'rm' opera from your /usr/whatever soon
Or get an image that excludes Opera and the newsreader. I've never seen the benefit of RSS on a disconnected device, as my 770 is for most of it's life.