Feel free to flame me, but I have the feeling the size of mozilla is
growing indecently too high...
Just compiled a fresh 0.9.4 from CVS. Mozilla compiled fine but took soo
long that made me curious. A little "du" check gave me that:
Values are in KB:
root@nightowl/usr/srcsoft> du -s *
113063 gimp
65752 gtk
448169 kde2.2
342445 mozilla
53841 qt-2.3.1
and
root@nightowl/usr> du -s src
302459 src
So Mozilla is almost as big as KDE2.2 and bigger than the complete /src
directory which contains a fresh compiled FreeBSD 4.4 system with full
source and binaries.
Whao is that normal for a browser? It doesn't surprise me now that mozilla
uses 50 to 80 MB RAM in normal use. More than 300MB only for mozilla
sources and binaries is too much IMO. I still really like it and use it
also (couldn't wait to get 0.9.4 for example). But for people with medium
computer resources it's a real problem. FreeBSD needs 23 seconds to
completely boot and mozilla needs 18 to 20 seconds to come up (K6 500 382MB
RAM). There is something wrong with that. Even a complete KDE needs only a
few more seconds. And how can mozilla be 6 time bigger than qt???
Oh well as long as we stay under the 1/2 GB with spell checker I guess it's
OK
All of the above IMHO
Ciao
Colin
