On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:58, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 09:57, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
>
> > That's not really true. Galeon is somewhat lighter than
> > Mozilla, because it doesn't use the XUL-based GUI, and gtk is a very
> > common lib which could have been already loaded by some other progs.
> > My laptop likes Galeon much more than it likes Mozilla.
>
> Not to mention mozilla tries to do email, IRC, a terminal, etc etc...
This is the issue, of course, and not XUL; Galeon uses XUL to display
widgets in the content window, because that's what gecko uses, and
Mozilla uses GTK to draw XUL on most Unixy platforms. (This message
neglects the overhead of XUL drawing, of course.)
pisces:~$ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin | grep g[dt].*
libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x40250000)
libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x40375000)
