[Vimperator] vimperator on seamonkey/iceape

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

Juri Hamburg <mail.hamburg at googlemail.com> writes:

>> Daniel Bainton wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I don't think Vimperator uses any Firefox specific stuff, just normal
>>> gecko functions. Dunno how much the gui options on Seamonkey and
>>> Firefox UIs differ though. It probably wouldn't be that hard to port.
>>> 
>> 
>> That's true for 95% i guess, there ARE some firefox specific functions
>> like BrowserHome() which are called occasionally. But i think generally
>> it would work, maybe some missing features.

> If anyone finds any modification of vimperator or mods it himself to 
> make it installable (and useable, of course) on iceape, please let me 
> know. Firefox is nice, but really fat, and on a 512mb machine there are 
> other things which need ram too. :)

Is it really true that Seamonkey uses less memory than Firefox?  I'd
really be quite surprised.  As far as I understand, Seamonkey basically
includes everything that Firefox does, plus more (i.e. the other
applications in the suite).

Perhaps you are thinking of xulrunner rather than iceape?

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard