Re: Woody Impressions
[I'd quote your original message, but I'm using Mozilla, which can't do
that. :-( ]
On RedHat, I mentioned it because when I was deciding whether to switch
to Mozilla, their decision to drop NS4.x in favor of Mozilla had just
been announced, lending creditibily to the new platform. A lot of the
point of my last post was, "In spite of this endorsement, it's still not
ready for prime-time."
On memory hogging, I don't believe this is because of memory caching; if
this were the case then it would load the memory-cached files a whole
lot faster than it does, right? The amazing speed of the rendering
engine is due to, well, the amazing speed of the rendering engine. :-)
On modularization, if you look in /usr/lib/mozilla/components, you see a
ton of miscellaneous .so files which are loaded as needed. I think it's
quite modularized, resulting in some memory savings when you only use a
few components. I don't believe these components are unloaded when not
needed, hence the memory hogging. And it doesn't help that it starts by
default in Mail/News, so those components are loaded at startup even if
you just want to use the browser...
Caveat: The above is all based on circumstantial evidence, such as
runtime debugging messages; I am no Mozilla expert.
Oh- a couple more Mozilla goodies: more markup of text emails, like
stuff *between asterisks* is made bold, signature text after and
including a -- line is grey, and emoticons are displayed as cute
pixmaps. Okay, I'm a sucker for eye candy, then complain about
bloatednes; so sue me. :-)
Zeen,
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