Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 10:46:04 EST


On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 15:05 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > ACK. X, evolution and Mozilla family (to name standard apps) are the
> > exceptions to this rule.
>
> Mozilla / Firefox / Opera in particular. 300MB is not funny on a
> laptop which cannot be expanded beyond 192MB. Are there any usable

It is also not funny on 512M if you have other apps running.

> graphical _small_ web browsers around? Usable meaning actually works
> on real web sites with fancy features.

None that I'm aware of:
- dillo doesn't know CSS and/or Javascript.
- epiphany is the Gnome standard browser - so it probably plays in the
memory hog league.
- konqueror is KDEs default browser. I've never really used it.
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