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Mozilla's Mini-Me
An anonymous contributor writes "LinuxDevices has a story by the leaders of the 'Minimo' (Mini Mozilla) project, an effort to reduce Mozilla's code and runtime footprints and optimize its display for the small screens on embedded devices. The Minimo authors believe Minimo will become the browser of choice on embedded Linux devices with 64MB of RAM."
I don't suppose they call this a mini-dupe? It is a clone after all!
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
Hard too believe it's going to be small enough. ;-)
Hey! Let's just crosspost everything from OSNews, and like, not even change the titles much. Oh, wait!!! It's been done! Nevermind.
While we're at it can someone come up with a way to shrink the Mozilla mascot. I just marvel at the possibilities.
My Shrink: "Delusional."
Me: "I swear, its a 5 inch tall dinosaur living in my glovebox!"
My Shrink: "Sure, Nurse please get this man a tranqil... um.... mint from the special jar."
You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush
Whenever you look at an old fossil of a computer, remember this: at some point, that was considered so much power that we would never be able to find a use for it all. We can't even blame MS - Linux gear is just as bloated.
You could always just run Minix.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
64 MB ought to be enough for anybody.
Read journal when you are not understand
Homer: Umm ... I guess I'll take that one.
Salesman: Well, do you need a paperweight? 'Cause if you buy that machine, that's all you're going to have, an expensive paperweight.
Homer: Well, a paperweight would be nice, but what I really need is a computer. How about that one? [points to a second machine]
Salesman: That technology is three months old. Only suckers buy out-of-date machines. You're not a sucker, are you sir?
Homer: Heavens no!
Salesman: Oh good, because if you were, I'd have to ask you to leave the store.
Homer: I just need something to receive email.
Salesman: [whistles] You'll need a top-of-the-line machine for that. [shows Homer a top-of-the-budget machine] That's the same computer astronauts use to do their taxes.
Homer: I was an astronaut.
Salesman: Of course you were.
True story.
Of course....the internet has more stuff now. It used to fit in 400K, but now it's so big, you need at least 64M to hold it all...
And all the viruses make it worse...I don't know how many times I've had to re-install the internet on my PC...
AB HOC POSSUM VIDERE DOMUM TUUM
In other news Mozilla's new name will be Fat Bastard
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Striving to be common
Striving to be common...
I've used Mozilla 1.6 quite a lot on an old PC - a P166MMX with 64MB memory and Win98 SE. It takes a while to start from scratch (twenty, thirty seconds or so) but once it's running it's absolutely fine. New windows open quickly, screen refreshes are nippy - it doesn't seem significantly slower than IE 5, which is also on the machine.
I don't think Mozilla hogs all the memory either, as switching between Mozilla and, say, Word 97 doesn't induce any hard disk thrashing - overall, it's a very usable system.
A hand-held device probably won't have any swap space, so the 64MB PC probably isn't a good comparison, but Mozilla isn't the machine-killing beast it's often portrayed as being...
The first browser was Telnet. You just had to use your imagination back in those days...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Or maybe just really, really sheltered. </sarcasm>
The Web is like Usenet, but
the elephants are untrained.
Ah yes. I remember playing DOOM 2 on my 486sx 25 with 4(!) MB RAM. I had to reboot and hold down shift to save as much memory as possible, and it still choked itself on level 30 :-)
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A Sperry XT?
;)
Dude, you are the shit.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
It starts? The last update is fom Feb 2003. Looks like it stopped again to me.
...turn it sideways so you'll be scrolling up and down. :-)
Stop the world; I need to get off.
I used to surf with only 2 MB
Back when I was a kid, we used to carve our own ICs out of wood.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.