Ross Evans wrote:
> Is there *anyone* here that believes mozilla will ever find it's way on any
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> on the following
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> 1> Old systems with limited memory and early pentium cpu's
Probably. I'm not sure how you'd define limited memory exactly, but I
believe the target is 32MB?
> 2> Embedded systems with limited memory and not particularly powerful cpu's
Yes, that's one of the project targets.
> 3> Desktop pc's running windows, given that IE is so dominant on it's native
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> platform, and that windows loads a lot of IE libs during start-up. Will
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> people essentially run something on top of all that when X% of resources
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> have been used to set-up IE for quick execution.
Yes, probably. Users care more about performance than how much is being
eaten up by background processes. When Mozilla and MSIE get into the
same ballpark in the areas that are currently slow, IE's preloaded dll's
won't matter much.
> 4>Desktop pc's running linux now that konqueror is coming along so well, and
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> the fact that the linux port is *still* a mess full of nasty hacks that slow
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> everything down even more.
Sure. Konqueror is KDE-only, is it not? I think QT's licensing will hurt
KDE enough to keep it from becoming dominant.
> 5> Other OSes given that the mozilla ports for them are a mess and in may
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> cases unlikely to ever produce a usable application
The problem is that it's not a mess. That's just you flaming without a
logical basis again.
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