From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>,
Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
"linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>,
Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>,
mloftis@wgops.com, barryn@pobox.com, a1426z@gawab.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:01:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060126050147.GB23296@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138231714.3087.66.camel@mindpipe>
Lee Revell wrote:
> > Mozilla / Firefox / Opera in particular. 300MB is not funny on a
> > laptop which cannot be expanded beyond 192MB. Are there any usable
> > graphical _small_ web browsers around? Usable meaning actually works
> > on real web sites with fancy features.
>
> "Small" and "fancy features" are not compatible.
>
> That's the problem with the term "usable" - to developers it means
> "supports the basic core functionality of a web browser" while to users
> it means "supports every bell and whistle that I get on Windows".
As both a developer and user, all I want is a web browser that works
with the sites I visit, and performs reasonably well on my laptop.
I know there are fast algorithms for layout, for running scripts and
updating trees, and the memory usage doesn't have to be anywhere near
as much as it is.
So it's reasonable to ask if anyone has written a fast browser that
works with current popular sites in fits in under 256MB after a few
days use.
Unfortunately, the response seems to be no, nobody has. I guess it's
a big job and there isn't the interest and resourcing to do it.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-26 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-21 18:08 [RFC] VM: I have a dream Al Boldi
2006-01-21 18:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-21 18:46 ` Avi Kivity
2006-01-23 19:52 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-25 22:04 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-26 19:18 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-27 16:12 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-27 19:17 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-30 13:21 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-30 13:35 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 15:56 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-31 16:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 23:14 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-31 16:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-01-31 19:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-02-01 4:06 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-02-02 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-02 18:59 ` Al Boldi
2006-02-02 22:33 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-02-03 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-30 16:49 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-26 0:03 ` Jon Smirl
2006-01-26 19:48 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-22 8:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-22 12:33 ` Robin Holt
2006-01-23 18:03 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-23 18:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-23 19:26 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-23 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-23 22:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-22 19:55 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-01-23 5:23 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-23 5:46 ` Chase Venters
2006-01-23 8:20 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-01-23 13:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-23 20:21 ` Peter Chubb
2006-01-23 15:05 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-23 15:26 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-23 16:11 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-23 16:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-24 2:08 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-25 6:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 9:23 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 9:42 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 15:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 23:24 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 15:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 15:47 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 16:09 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-25 17:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-26 19:13 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-25 23:28 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-26 1:29 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-26 5:01 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2006-01-26 5:11 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-26 14:46 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-01-24 2:10 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-25 22:27 ` Nix
2006-01-26 15:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-26 16:23 ` Nix
2006-01-23 20:43 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-23 22:42 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-24 14:36 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-24 15:04 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-24 20:59 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-24 15:11 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-23 22:57 ` Ram Gupta
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-01 13:58 Al Boldi
2006-02-01 14:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-02-02 12:26 ` Al Boldi
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